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I'm trying to help a client who mistakenly checked the "Move Edits to Base" option when versioning a feature class in ArcGIS. They would now like to fix this mistake. However, they don't want to lose any of the versioned edits in that feature class, and they cannot reconcile and post everything in it. There are a couple of years of work in there from several thousand long-lived versions.
Does anyone know of a way to accomplish this?
Thanks!
You could try this, but it is going to be completely unsupported as it goes against ESRI documentation....and I haven't tested it.
At this point the new feature class should be an exact copy of the old feature class.
The only supported way I can think of doing this is through difference cursors. You would have to write some custom code to request the differences, and then apply them to a copied version of the feature class. This shouldn't be overly difficult.
If you do the above, using SQL to copy the data, then it may cause other side affects even though you may see the data in your feature class. I recently did something similar (append data to a feature class via SQL Server instead of doing it via ArcMap) and later when I did an intersect, the newly added rows were not included in the intersect results. I got around this by exporting the appended feature class to a new feature class and then the intersect worked
