(ArcGIS 10.5.1, Windows 10 64-bit machine)
In the course of my daily data maintenance workflows, there are two feature classes that I frequently have to copy & paste attributes between (it's an address point layer and a driveway access layer - I'm copying a unique ID and address attribute information from the address point layer and into the driveway access layer).
More precisely, my steps are:
^ This is the moment when the driveway access point is spatially moved to the location of the address point.
Is there a known cause for this? I cannot think of what I've changed in my environment to cause this behavior to suddenly begin....it does happen every single time, but it never used to.
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Hmmmm.....Michael Volz ...you've uncovered my issue:
I have used the Attribute Transfer tool in the past. When I opened the tool and looked at how it was last set up (Attribute Transfer Mapping...), the box was checked for "Transfer Geometry".
The 'buggy' part of all of this, in my opinion, is that the Copy/Paste Attributes function within the Attributes window honors this checkbox that's buried in the Spatial Adjustment toolset.
Have you ever tried the Attribute Transfer tool?
Hmmmm.....Michael Volz ...you've uncovered my issue:
I have used the Attribute Transfer tool in the past. When I opened the tool and looked at how it was last set up (Attribute Transfer Mapping...), the box was checked for "Transfer Geometry".
The 'buggy' part of all of this, in my opinion, is that the Copy/Paste Attributes function within the Attributes window honors this checkbox that's buried in the Spatial Adjustment toolset.
As a side-note, I think there is some weird vocabulary/terminology confusion going on with these tools, that could be cleaned-up.
This might be a call then to tech support to see if this is the expected behavior. I know that checkbox is very important as most work at my org is done with that box unchecked to prevent geometry edits.
At the least this explains the phenomenon you have been seeing so you can prevent it in the future.