An important part of managing mosaic datasets is to easily find the path to the source rasters and the overviews. This functionality is especially important when there is a need to move mosaic datasets and their overviews to a new storage location/path.
In ArcMap this is fairly easily done by navigating to the Footprint layer in the TOC, and selecting Open Attribute Table. In that table, in the Raster column, if I click on any of the items, I am presented with a drop-down arrow that when clicked on, brings up a window for that raster in which I can preview, view the description, view the properties, or by clicking on the Functions tab, I can see the RasterInfo Function which allows me to select the displayed raster, and then select properties. One of the properties includes the path to the location on disk for the raster.
In ArcPro, I can open the Attribute Table for the Footprints, but in the Raster column, there is no apparent option for me to select that raster and it's attributes, including RasterInfo Function, so I am not able to determine the path of the selected raster item.
There is a potential workaround of sorts that Esri Support Services provided:
- Add the complete mosaic dataset, with Boundary, Footprint and Image layers to ArcGIS Pro.
- Highlight the mosaic dataset top level in the table of contents.
- On the Mosaic Layer tab, select Data > Explore Raster Items.
- The Raster Item Explorer will open, and you can inspect a raster, or group of rasters properties, by selection, or by various other property options.
ArcPro needs to provide the capability of EASILY finding the path to source files and to overviews. At this time, when I am doing this work, I have to drop back to ArcMap.
This issue has been logged by Esri Support Services as BUG-000127486 in order to report this issue to Development, as a Usability bug.
