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I have tried editing a feature class in an ArcGIS drawing which results to an error related to the specific geodatabase. The description in the error says "Check to see that you have the appropriate permissions". The same issue applies to all feature classes within the specific geodatabase.

I have double-checked that the drawing is not open on a colleagues machine, in order to avoid any Schema Lock related issues. Furthermore, other colleagues are experiencing the same issue with the specific drawing, so it is not something happening only on my end.

While I cannot edit any feature class within the geodatabase, I can delete them.

Does anybody knows what might be the issue here?

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    Do you have read/write permission set in Windows? Is this a local geodatabase or one on a shared drive?
    – Aaron ♦
    Commented Mar 12, 2020 at 13:13
  • Yes I have, since I am able to make changes in all other drawings. The geodatabase in on a shared drive.
    – PhysicsRuleZ
    Commented Mar 12, 2020 at 15:01
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    I have had this situation arises when working on a shared drive. Usually, there is some sort of lock from one of the users. Try restarting ArcGIS on all of the local computers that may be accessing the geodatabase to see if the lock clears. You can test for a lock too using arcpy: gis.stackexchange.com/q/202482/8104
    – Aaron ♦
    Commented Mar 12, 2020 at 15:22

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I've run into this problem before when using municipal data. Unfortunately, the dataset is not going to be useable on your end. This may be quite tedious depending on the size of this geodatabase, but I ended up just taking an hour to create an entirely new dataset based off the existing one. This would involve individually exporting and tracing each feature within the dataset, and composited a new dataset based off of that.

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