Latest Contributions by WilliamCole

I do have layers selected as shown in the screen grab below.  Thank you very much for putting my question in the right slot.  I'm still not entirely sure how to work GeoNet and it shows.  ... View more

Just found it at the top of the page under the Open [who knew] button.  My apologies.  Now to give it a whirl. Bill ... View more

Rebecca, thanks for the pointer.  I read the documentation page, which looks promising, and then went to the page to download the tool.  That page asked that I click on "the attachment below" to download, but, unless I totally missed it, cannot see an attachment link.  I tried this [logged in] on a couple of browsers just to make sure that it wasn't a browser problem, but got the same result on both.  If I makes a difference, I'm using Windows 10 with Firefox to do the internet browsing.  I also tried Edge.  I will say that the machine that I run ArcGIS from is Windows 7 and will remain that way until 10.4. Bill ... View more

Thank you very much for pointing me to this. I finally got the network back and have - undoubtedly done the hard way - changed the Data Sources on each of the maps in my maps collection to point to the new computer. My primary map is a collection of georeferenced USGS historic topo quadrant rasters which were attached to the ArcGIS topo base map by dragging them on to it [after each had been individually georeferenced]. Using ArcCatalog I changed the Data Storage locations on each of these individual maps. Each were then opened with ArcMap, and re-checked to be sure that they were collecting data from the proper computer and were properly displaying the rasters. However, to get the USGS historic topo raster images to display I had to open the Link Table associated with the map and then save the map. Once this was done these maps displayed correctly. Other that the USGS raster, there are no other layers associated with these individual maps. All of the feature layers are associated with the primary map. However, the primary map - the one which was assembled by dragging each of the quadrant maps on to it - shows all of the features correctly against the ArcGIS base topo map, but does not show the underlying USGS historic topo quadrant rasters as it use to before the files were moved. In the hope of fixing this, I went to each associated raster file [.jpg] and made sure that the Data Source was pointing to the correct computer. However, making this change did not result in the appearance of the missing rasters on the primary map. Clearly I'm, again, missing something Thanks very much, Bill Cole ... View more

Xander, thanks. I do see the red exclamation icon, I don't though recall if the project was set to relative paths. Unfortunately just I went to sort this out, my SMB network crashed. Will check this out when i'm back up. ... View more

Dan, thanks.  I do see the red exclamation icon, I don't though recall if the project was set to relative paths.  Unfortunately just I went to sort this out, my SMB network crashed.  Will check this out when i'm back up. Regards, Bill Cole ... View more

I did MXD Doctor which came up clean. I removed the layer and added it back to the same map.  No result. I added the layer to a new map.  No result. I exported the layer to a Shapefile and then added that new feature class back to the original map.  No result. I keep a backup of my map files that goes back 30 days.   Would this feature class be a separate file?  and, if so, what is its nominal path and extension, please?  Maybe there's an outside chance I can restore one of my old one of these files. Thanks again, very much. ... View more

Thanks for the idea.  I opened the classes' attribute table and see that the field name is as it should be.  Then, in the table, I double-clicked on one of the features which was added before I made the mistake.  This brought up all of the features, highlighting the one I had double-clicked, but against a white background; there was no map.  However, the features appear to be arrayed properly in space. Then, from the same attribute table, I double-clicked on one of the features that I had added after I had made the mistake.  Doing this displayed the feature, highlighted, in its proper place but with the correct map as the background. Somehow some of these features have been uncoupled from their associated map but I don't see a place to reattach them. ... View more

Thank you very much for this.  Am still stumbling my way around ArcGIS and am sure to mis-read.  All is well.  Very kind of you to spend time w/my post.  Regards ... ... View more

Thanks very much, indeed for your welcome response. I'm sure that I'm misunderstanding, but wanted to doublecheck re: what to do after making selections and then right-clicking to  choose the Selection option.  Here's what I get when right-clicking: Which doesn't appear to include a "Selection" option.  I've got to be doing the wrong task. BTW running ArcGIS Desktop 10.2 if that makes a difference. ... View more