I have a question. My computer has been replaced with a new Xeon Workstation. Before that, I had a temporary workstation and had ArcGIS 10 on it. While I was waiting for the new workstation to be replaced, I was working on mosaic dataset and worked on several clipped rasters to mosaic them. When I got my new workstation back, I had to backup all of my datasets to external hard drive and then load them to the new computer.
So when I bring the mosaic dataset up to my ArcGIS 10 on my new computer, all I see is black! Did I do something wrong when I made the backup or should I run some fixes?
Originally, what I did was that I had two NAIPs loaded from the ArcGIS server added them to my ArcMap and had a layer called mask to clipped the raster within the mask. I use them to mosaic them to created one mosaic file saved in Mosaic Dataset.
HELP !! I hope I do not have to re-do all the work again. Thanks for your feedback.
Thanks !
Best Answer
Most likely what happened is, in the process of moving the data from one computer to another, the paths to the imagery referenced in the mosaic dataset became invalid.
What you can do is repair the paths in the mosaic dataset. You can do this either with geoprocessing tools or an interactive dialog, as shown below. Be sure to increase the folder path depth enough to show all of the folder paths.
In this example I have moved the referenced imagery from my Z: drive to my C: drive and updated the folder paths to reflect this.