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I have about 100 figures that have been updated countless times and a lot of the old data was left in each .mxd but was only turned off (unchecked) and not removed. I would like to remove these layers from each .mxd but keep the actual shapefile/features in an achieve folder.

I have found a similar script that removes layers by layer name here: Delete layer from ArcMap using Python

but it does not do exactly what I want it to do.

Does anyone have a script already written that does what I am trying to do?

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  • If you don't wan to delete the layer from disk, just remove the "arcpy.Delete_management(lyr.dataSource)" from the script you linked to.
    – RyanKDalton
    Feb 4, 2014 at 15:36
  • Sorry. What i want to do is remove layers that are unchecked in the TOC. The linked script removes layers by name.
    – Mike
    Feb 4, 2014 at 15:39
  • Closely related to How to turn off layers in ArcMap via arcpy?
    – RyanKDalton
    Feb 4, 2014 at 15:55

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In order to remove only layers that are unchecked (not visible), you need to check the layer property "visible". In this case you would just need to sub out:

if lyr.name == "CADAnnotation": for if lyr.visible == False:

You should read more about layer properties at Layer (arcpy.mapping) in the online help.

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