PROBLEM

Attribute indexes are dropped when saving edits to a shapefile

Last Published: April 25, 2020

Description

Attribute indexes are used to increase the performance of rendering or querying layers based on certain fields values. However, when editing, it is not possible to maintain those indexes. Saving edits will drop the indexes for shapefiles.

Solution or Workaround



Once you finish editing, rebuild the indexes in ArcCatalog.

Article ID:000003565

Software:
  • ArcMap 8 x

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