REASON - When operations start
behaving erratically while using shapefiles, the cause could
be the corruption of shapes within the shapefile itself. Until
ESRI tracks down the cause of corrupted shapefiles, a simple
quick fix has been created.
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Locate program “cleanshapefile.exe”.
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If “cleanshapefile.exe”
is present on your system.
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navigate using a file
explorer (i.e., Windows Explorer) to a sub-directory
of the ArcGIS installation folder -
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...arcgis\arcexe81\ArcObjects
Developer Kit\samples\utilities\cleanshapefile\.
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If “cleanshapefile.exe”
is not present on your system it is probably located
in a similar sub-directory in the Grinnell College
storageserver.
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\\Storage\ARCGIS\ArcObjects
Developer Kit\samples\utilities\cleanshapefile\.
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If “cleanshapefile.exe”
is not present at Grinnell download the utility from
http://arconline.esri.com/arcobjectsonline/.
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Enter "clean"
in the search box.
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Open the topic "Export
and clean shapefile".
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Click “Download
Now”.
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Place in a new folder
on your computer.
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Run the file “cleanshapefile.exe”.
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It will prompt you for
an input shapefile.
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It will then prompt you
for an output shapefile name
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The program will chug a few
seconds and provide a brief report on changes made to
the shapefile.
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