The purpose of this tool is to downgrade attachments on an enabled and upgraded attachments feature class or table. Reasons to downgrade attachments include the following:
- ArcGIS Pro versions earlier than 2.6 cannot access the attachment table. Downgrading the feature class or table allows earlier versions to access the data, including restoring the functionality to delete features or records.
- A feature class or table was temporarily upgraded to share as a web layer and needs to be downgraded to its previous schema.
- An upgraded attachments feature class or table is no longer needed.
To downgrade an attachment, complete the following steps:
- On the Analysis tab in the Geoprocessing group, click Tools.
- Search for or browse to the Downgrade Attachments tool in the Data Management Tools toolset, and click the Downgrade Attachments search result to open the tool.
The Downgrade Attachments dialog box appears with a single parameter to populate with the input dataset.
- For Input Dataset, use the browse button
to select a feature class or table, or click the down arrow to choose a dataset from the active map. - Click Run to downgrade the dataset.