topic Re: mxd opens slowly in Mapping Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/mxd-opens-slowly/m-p/654128#M7125 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Couple questions.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Have you upgraded your Database to 10.1?</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>How large are the&nbsp; MXD's that you are trying to open?</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Are you trying to open online sources?</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Are you using MXD's that were created before 10.1?</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Do you regularly compress your geodatabase?</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Are you features in a Geometric Network and or in SDE?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>In Windows Explorer navigate to your geodatabase.&nbsp; How large is it?</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Now in ArcCatalog compress your geodatabase.&nbsp; Now how large is it?&nbsp; If it went down dramatically you should see an increase in performance. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Open your windows explorer.&nbsp; Right click on the properties for your hard drive.&nbsp; How much space do you have left on&nbsp; your hard drive?&nbsp; If you have anything less than 10% you have space issues.&nbsp; Does not really matter how large your hard drive is but what percentage is left is critical.&nbsp; If you have less than 10% delete or uninstall anything you can then...</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Run Disk Cleanup on&nbsp; your hard drives.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Run Disk Defragmentor on your hard drives.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>After compressing your database, running cleanup on your HDD and de-fragmenting your HDD are you still having issues?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>If your MXD that you are using is very large (over 7mb) you may need to take steps to reduce it.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><BR /><BR /><BLOCKQUOTE class="jive-quote">I have been having issues with opening ANY mxd in 10.1. The software itself opens fine, but if I try to open a mxd it takes a long time to load. I have tried deleting the normal.mxt and have tried creating different mxds and trying them, but it seems as though it takes a long time no matter what. It is not 'drawing' while I wait for it to load either, rather it just shows the little blue loading circle. Once the mxd is open it is fine as well. Any suggestions?<BR /><BR />Thanks</BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML> Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:02:48 GMT RobertBorchert 2013-04-29T19:02:48Z mxd opens slowly https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/mxd-opens-slowly/m-p/654127#M7124 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I have been having issues with opening ANY mxd in 10.1. The software itself opens fine, but if I try to open a mxd it takes a long time to load. I have tried deleting the normal.mxt and have tried creating different mxds and trying them, but it seems as though it takes a long time no matter what. It is not 'drawing' while I wait for it to load either, rather it just shows the little blue loading circle. Once the mxd is open it is fine as well. Any suggestions?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:07:33 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/mxd-opens-slowly/m-p/654127#M7124 JesseMorkis 2013-04-29T18:07:33Z Re: mxd opens slowly https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/mxd-opens-slowly/m-p/654128#M7125 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Couple questions.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Have you upgraded your Database to 10.1?</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>How large are the&nbsp; MXD's that you are trying to open?</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Are you trying to open online sources?</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Are you using MXD's that were created before 10.1?</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Do you regularly compress your geodatabase?</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Are you features in a Geometric Network and or in SDE?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>In Windows Explorer navigate to your geodatabase.&nbsp; How large is it?</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Now in ArcCatalog compress your geodatabase.&nbsp; Now how large is it?&nbsp; If it went down dramatically you should see an increase in performance. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Open your windows explorer.&nbsp; Right click on the properties for your hard drive.&nbsp; How much space do you have left on&nbsp; your hard drive?&nbsp; If you have anything less than 10% you have space issues.&nbsp; Does not really matter how large your hard drive is but what percentage is left is critical.&nbsp; If you have less than 10% delete or uninstall anything you can then...</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Run Disk Cleanup on&nbsp; your hard drives.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Run Disk Defragmentor on your hard drives.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>After compressing your database, running cleanup on your HDD and de-fragmenting your HDD are you still having issues?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>If your MXD that you are using is very large (over 7mb) you may need to take steps to reduce it.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><BR /><BR /><BLOCKQUOTE class="jive-quote">I have been having issues with opening ANY mxd in 10.1. The software itself opens fine, but if I try to open a mxd it takes a long time to load. I have tried deleting the normal.mxt and have tried creating different mxds and trying them, but it seems as though it takes a long time no matter what. It is not 'drawing' while I wait for it to load either, rather it just shows the little blue loading circle. Once the mxd is open it is fine as well. Any suggestions?<BR /><BR />Thanks</BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML> Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:02:48 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/mxd-opens-slowly/m-p/654128#M7125 RobertBorchert 2013-04-29T19:02:48Z