I have a feature class in ArcGIS for Desktop 10.3. This feature class contains 12 point features.
I am attempting to export this as a shapefile;
Rightclick feature class -> Data -> Export Data (select filetype of shapefile)
However this is producing an empty shapefile. All the components of this shapefile (CPG, PRJ, SBX etc) are 1kb in size except the DBF which is 165kb and still empty (when opened in excel).
I export feature classes as shapefiles regularly and have not had this issue before.
What are the possible causes of this problem?
Best Answer
I actually have this happen to me now and again. Usually it happens when I am doing lots of exporting from the table of contents, and when I am sometimes exporting selected records and sometimes all records. It seems sometimes Arcmap will start only exporting selected records. So if I have nothing selected and export all tecords, I get an empty output. So then if I select all records and export, then it works. So that is my workaround--select all the records. Sometimes it helps to reboot Arcmap too.