just made a quick map. I imported a shp file containing only 1 point marking the location of a sewer plant. I go to edit that shape file, but adding a text field with the name of the plant, so i can create an automatic label. Looks great until I close arcmap, and then try to re-open that map. I get the above message. Any way to fix it, or more importantly, how do i keep it from happening? Any help will be greatly appreciated.
I am assuming that the edits were stopped and saved...in any event if it is a geometry error you can give Repair Geometry a shot, however, since it is only one point, it is hardly worthwhile downloading an abundance of shapefile repair tools from the web to fix it. Should this occur more frequently, then you might explore some options. See this topic as well or search on this site using ...