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I have a shapefile which displays fine in ArcMap. When I view the attribute table I get the following error. However the same shapefile loads fine and can view its attribute table to in QGIS. Any ideas ??

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When I have had this it has usually been due to an invalid field name. The biggest culprit is a comma in the field name. QGIS is not bothered by this but ESRI is. So check your attribute table field names for anything dodgy. Spaces seem to be OK but I try to avoid them as well.

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  • Thanks .Yes I did figure out that this error comes when the shapefile name itself is long and has " _" in it .
    – SNT
    Feb 17, 2012 at 13:05
  • The web help has a good section on feature class naming at help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#//… but I could not quickly locate an equivalent page describing the rules for shapefile naming
    – PolyGeo
    Feb 17, 2012 at 22:29

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