is it possible to convert 9.3 lyr to 10 lyr

Question

I have a customer who sent me a lyr file in 9.3 and I am using 10, is there a way to import it in. It seems to hang up whenever I attempt to open it!

Thanks

Answer 1

@prasad is right you can open 9.3 lyr in 10.

if you want to save them to 10 lyr right click your layer and select Save As Layer File then select Layer files (*.lyr) from Save as type and now you can save it as 10 lyr .

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The reverse operation is told here ArcGIS 9 doesn't recognize ArcGIS 10 .lyr files and solution:

If you right click on your layer in ArcGIS 10 and click 'Save As Layer File', in the 'Save as type' dropdown box you will have an option to save the .lyr file as a 9.3 layer file, which should let you use the symbology in 9.3.

Beside this for batch convertion you can use Save To Layer File (Data Management) with arcpy, here.

import arcpy
arcpy.env.workspace = "C:/data"
arcpy.SaveToLayerFile_management("studyquadsLyr", "C:/output/studyquadsLyr.lyr", "ABSOLUTE")

i hope it helps you