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3. Highlight the word Folder Connections in the Catalog Tree and select: View > Refresh (or just
press F5). This ensures that the Catalog Tree properly reflects all data sets and puts them
in order in the Tree. It is not always necessary to do this, but it doesn't cost much (only a bit
of time and computer processing), and it will save you on occasion from wondering where
something went that was supposed to be there.
4. Navigate back to Housekeeping_Stuff, and highlight it. Select Edit > Paste (or press Ctrl-V,
or press the Paste button on the Standard toolbar). Refresh the Catalog Tree again, expand
Housekeeping_Stuff, and display the Geography of this copy of the Fire_Hydrants feature class.
5. With Fire_Hydrants highlighted, right-click on the name. Choose Rename. (Alternative ways to
start the renaming process: press F2, or left-click on the highlighted name.) Type “NEW_Fire_
Hydrants” to change the name of the feature class. Click somewhere away from the name to
end the renaming process. Preview NEW_Fire_Hydrants with the Preview tab.
6. Delete the feature data set Hydrants by highlighting it and selecting File > Delete, or pressing
the Delete button on the Standard toolbar, or by selecting Delete on the drop-down menu that
you receive by right-clicking the highlighted name. Also delete the folder Housekeeping_Stuff.
(You may have to delete its contents, before you will be allowed to delete the folder.) Close
ArcCatalog.
ArcCatalog operates pretty much like Windows Explorer or the regular operating system file browser when
it comes to copying, moving, renaming, deleting, and so on. But always use ArcCatalog when dealing
with geographic data sets, whether they be geodatabases, coverages, or shapefiles. You may, however, use
Windows to move or rename entire folders that contain geographic data sets.
Exercise 1-10 (Review)
Checking, Updating, and Organizing Your Fast Facts File
The Fast Facts File that you are developing should contain references to items in the following checklist.
The checklist represents the abilities you should have upon completing Chapter 1.
Name: ____________________________________________________________
My User or Logon Identifier:__________________________________________
My password is written down in this secure location: ____________________
The hard drive location of this FastFactsFile is __________________________
The FastFactsFile is backed up on ____________________________________
The date of the last update of the FastFactsFile is ______________________
The date of the last reorganization of the FastFactsFile is ________________