ArcMap 10.8 Select By Location not loading layers

[AlecColarusso]

Hello,

My lab offers workshops and we recently updated to 10.8 an error that never really happened to me is the select by location interface loading with no layers despite layers being within the document. A few of the students and I have been having issues with it. the solution requires a reboot of ArcMap before the layers will load again. I didn't know if this issue was a bug with 10.8 - as I used 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, and 10.6 over the past 5 years and never noticed this issue before. My supervisor said it may be an issue with how memory is being used in the program. I figured I should post it somewhere and I will add an image as soon as it happens to me again.

Thank you,

Alec

[SouleymaneFall]

I agree. Just wanted to suggest an alternative.

[RickHollatz]

Just wanted to add another comment to this thread.  I was having a similar problem with Select By Location.  After some unsuccessful efforts to resolve it (e.g. replacing the Normal file) I realized it was specific to one dataset I obtained from an outside source, specifically because that polygon data had negative values in the SHAPE_AREA field.  In my case it was easy to just create a new polygon dataset (using Trace), which provided me with a non-corrupt version.  Selection tools worked properly after that.  In reading another post elsewhere there was a good suggestion that using the Repair Geometry geoprocessing tool may also resolve the problem and be a better alternative for fixing a more complicated dataset since a manual Trace is not a great solution.  Just wanted to share that the data may be the cause, rather than a bug in the software.