The limited editing is due to the providers used to connect to the data, as
you see you can NOT erase features from a shp file. That is because of the
provider used Out Of The Box. You can create you own that will allow you to
have free access to edit the shp files at will if you know how. What you
need to try is instead of connecting to a single shp file is connect to a
folder, edit the shp as needed then create a new shp schema and add the
edited features to it. You are basically doing a SaveAs with this method.
You do know that when you upgraded to Map3D 2008 you could of taken the
Oracle bundle option for just a few dollars more than the cost of the
upgrade.
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"Buggy"? That is a huge understatement. I wonder how much data is getting
lost or scrambled out there. We just converted all of our City's utility
data over to SHP file and upgraded to Map 2008 to edit it and now feel
really stuck as I do not trust any native editing that Map 2008 does, yet, I
have no way to edit my data now other than importing the shape files, or
converting everything back to blocks.
Too bad we do not run Oracle or SDE.