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Layers on older projects won't display

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01-19-2015 01:58 PM
TravisRoth
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‎01-19-2015 01:58 PM

I have recently started learning ArcGIS on my own for a GIS position within the company I work for and am using the ArcGIS Tutorial 1 book. All of my exercises and projects from the tutorial have worked fine, but as soon as I open up existing projects from our company database none of the existing layers will show. They all have a red exclamation mark and I can't figure out how to see whats causing the problem. Any advice on where to start?

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DarrenWiens2
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‎01-19-2015 02:01 PM

The red exclamation mark means that the file is not at the location specified as the data source (for example, the layer is pointed to C:/shapefile.shp, but there is no such file). Open the layer properties (double-click on the layer). On the Source tab, choose "Set Data Source..." and navigate to the file location.

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DarrenWiens2
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‎01-19-2015 02:01 PM

The red exclamation mark means that the file is not at the location specified as the data source (for example, the layer is pointed to C:/shapefile.shp, but there is no such file). Open the layer properties (double-click on the layer). On the Source tab, choose "Set Data Source..." and navigate to the file location.