ArcMap MXD freezes

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04-17-2019 12:44 AM
SunilTerkar
New Contributor II

Hello,

Last week, we upgraded most of the ArcGIS user to 10.6.1 from 10.5.1 with TLC patch 1.2. Certain group in company are complaining about not opening ArcMap 10.5.1 mxd's with 10.6.1 (It appeared that desktop has freezed or not doing anything) . When I tried to open it worked for me.Not sure sure what is going on. 10.5.1 mxd contains reference to local data as well loads of reference to Open data available online. 

I will appreciate any help.

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RobertBorchert
Frequent Contributor III

For one reason or another MXD's do not often transition from one very to another very well.

First try running MXD Doctor on and Document Defragmenter on the MXD.

What I have found works best is to start a new mxd.  open your existing mxd.  go to layout view.  Using select elements select everything in the layout view. Copy and paste into the new empty Layout

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