Why does it take so long to delete fields from a file geodatabase or a shapefile?
Last Published: April 25, 2020
Answer
Deleting fields from a geodatabase or a shapefile takes a long time, because the entire file needs to be rewritten one record at a time without the deleted field(s).
There is currently no way to do this more quickly.
Article ID: 000009659
Software:
ArcMap
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