I run a single use ArcGIS license.
I recently moved a project from ArcGIS Desktop to ArcGIS Pro running on a Windows 10
machine. It worked well, though the transition did take time while I got more comfortable
with ArcGIS Pro.
Because of the announcement of Windows 10 going "mature" in October 2025, and I being mildly
OCD, bought a replacement Windows 11 machine. I uninstalled ArcGIS Pro from the Windows
10 device and installed ArcGIS Pro on the Windows 11 machine.
Then I copied the relevant directories from Window 10 to Windows 11 and started ArcGIS Pro
using this transferred project.
The project, which uses historical maps that have been georeferenced to the base map, opened these maps as it should with the proper extents and the proper the coordinate system.
There are, however, two problems:
- In the ArcGIS Pro Windows 10 installation - which worked fine- I could expand the default
geodatabase so that all of the Feature Classes [FC], etc. were listed in the catalog pane. In the Windows 11
installation, even though the file size of the copied geodatabases were exactly the same, down to the file size, under Windows 11 the geodatabase will not expand. - Secondly, in the Windows 11 ArcGIS Pro installation in the Contents pane, even
though the FCs were listed in their proper order with the proper symbology
and even though the source for the feature classes were the same as for the Windows 10
installation of ArcGIS Pro, each FC was decorated with the red exclamation
mark [!] indicating that its data could not be found. The source for each of these FCs is the same geodatabase that is not expanding.
My guess is that there is some file or link that I have copied or have copied but put in the
wrong location - but that is only a guess.
Advice would be most welcomed.
Thanks very much.
