View Mosaic Data Item Paths in ArcGIS Pro

[BobNutsch1]

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.

[KoryKramer]

Have you tried Export Mosaic Dataset Paths—Data Management toolbox | ArcGIS Desktop ?

[BobNutsch1]

Hi,  Thanks for asking about that, I hadn't until now. :)  That's an approach that IMO works better than the current ArcPro workaround, but is still slower than the functionality available in ArcMap (setting up the process and then waiting for it to run, then opening the .dbf).  Plus, dumping out all the paths doesn't give me the interactive granularity that I need when I'm trying to debug a problem with a particular raster file.  E.g., finding out why a raster file isn't properly displaying or is showing up in an incorrect location.

[MichaelVolz]

I agree with Bob that Pro should be equivalent to the way ArcMap currently works in viewing data paths in RMDs as a more straight forward workflow.

[KoryKramer]

Thanks, Bob.  Yup, I was just trying to provide an option that might not have been explored yet.

Cheers

[ModyBuchbinder]

In ArcMap when you do Identify you can open the raster too. It is nice and easy functionality.