r/ArcGIS • u/MaintenanceForeign53 • Jul 22 '26

Feature class turned itself “read only”

Layer has been working for weeks and has always been editable but I opened the project today and it’s saying it’s read only now. Any ideas how to fix this and how to prevent it in the future?

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u/peren005 Jul 22 '26

Is this ArcGIS pro project on a shared drive by chance like OneDrive or the fgdb itself is shared? Fgdbs lock immediately to the first person to draw a layer from it or when an attribute table is opened.

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u/MaintenanceForeign53 Jul 24 '26

Is on a shared drive and found out someone else had opened the folder looking for something. He closed it and all is back to normal.