Content of the mxd lost

[GülEndam]

I found a bug which clear the content of my mxd, but I am unable to report this, since the reporting system has changed, I wonder if someone else also had the similar problem and found out the reason.

The issue was that: I  have organized an mxd with some spatial and non spatial data, i had different data frames in this mxd, after I was done saved my mxd file  but when I  re-open it again I found out that the content was removed. The size of the mxd was same but I was unable to visualize the content. There was some external data connection with SQL-server, that connections were still in mxd but not the content from gdb.

Had anyone encountered with this error before ?

[DanPatterson_Retired]

If the 'lost data' is being indicated by a red ! beside each layer, then your project hasn't used relative paths as the default.  The project file and/or the data files/links have been moved.  You can correct this by selecting a layer, right-click, select data, then repair data source and navigate to the location of the data

[RebeccaStrauch__GISP]

To add to what Dan mentioned....if you have multiple items with ! and they are all located in the same workspace, if you double-click on the ! and can fix the one path, the rest of the items in that same path/workspace should also be repaired.

[GülEndam]

Well actually, that was not the case, so the path was not lost but the spatial data itself , the layers were removed from mxd.

first i thought it was my mistake and I have deleted because it sounds quiet weird to me. But this happened several times.

[RebeccaStrauch__GISP]

So, are the layers not listed in the TOC at all?  Or are they listed (you mentioned the SQL connection was still there) but the data just doesn't draw?​  if no longer in the TOC, it sees there is an issue I saving the actual mid ... Maybe the save didn't complete successfully (ie a write error?).

if in the TOC but not seeing the data, that sounds like more of a permission or access problem.  Are the credentials saved, and saved correctly in your SQL connection?

If neither of those seem to be an issue, than I would suggest contacting  Esri Support to figure out the specifics. If a bug, they can submit it.

[YuanLiu]

To add to Rebecca's questions, is any code involved in this process? Like ArcPy, ArcObjects SDK or so? If possible, could you post some screenshots here please?