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Drawing Alert: General Function Failure

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07-18-2024 02:20 PM
CarsonMorton
New Contributor III

I get multiple "Drawing Alert: General Function Failure" messages every day. And if the affected layer is one I am currently working on then it doesn't show on the map, and I can't save any edits I have made.

Closing and reopening Pro solves the error, but sometimes it's only 10 minutes before it happens again.

I found a post for ArcMap, but it doesn't really get into the root cause and how to fix it.

ArcMap Drawing Error: General Function Failure - Esri Community

*** EDIT ***

it appears to be an issue with the server. If I copy the files to my local machine then this issue doesn't happen. (But that is a pain, and likely something will get lost in the shuffle.) So it is NOT an esri issue..

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CodyPatterson
Regular Contributor

Hey @CarsonMorton 

What version of Pro are you using? If possible, you may try to either upgrade or downgrade by a version to see if that resolves the issue. Along with that question, is this something new that started up randomly?

Cody

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CarsonMorton
New Contributor III

This started months ago. I was sure it was because my hard drive was embarrassingly full. I finally had to corner someone to upgrade my machine. It still happened. I updated to 3.3.1, which I couldn't do before because the full drive. It still happens.

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CarsonMorton
New Contributor III

From some other things going on with my computer, we have come to the conclusion that it looses connection to our server (where all my files/projects are saved)

Tech will take a look at it when I am gone for holidays. Hopefully it doesn't happen after I come back.