How do you change the full extent of a layer?

[JoshWhite]

I had a layer that initially had a very large extent (moved from one of the Local Government templates) and even though the extent of all of the features is much smaller now, when you select zoom to layer in the Table of Contents, it zooms to the that massive extent still.  All of the existing features are within the smaller extent.  When you select all features and click Zoom To Selected the smaller extent also applies.  Is there a way to adjust the extent of a feature to match the extent of the features?  Under the Source tab the larger extent is also present.

Should be closer to:

[MarkZito]

rebuild the spatial index

[JoshWhite]

Unfortunately, it doesn't change the extent.  I even removed the spatial index and added a new one but it just returned to the original extent.

[MarkZito]

You can change the domain of the feature dataset, make sure you don't have a schema lock though.

You can also change the default extent with ArcMap's Data Frame Properties - Data Frame tab.  Set the extent used by full extent commend to other and specify the extend you wish to use.

[MarkBockenhauer · Accepted solution]

For a feature class in ArcCatalog you can:

Right Click on the feature class

Click Properties

Click "Feature Extent Tab"

and click the Re-calculate Extent button.

I think ArcGIS 10.1 and later...

Mark