Original Question

I imported an existing shape file to a personal geodatabase and added
domains. All of the previous data in the fields that I added domains to was
lost. Has anyone else found this problem too? if so is there a way to add a
domain without losing all existing data in your personal geodatabase? Also
is there a way to import a field from another table and use those values as
domain values, so you do not have to retype all the info  again? Will SUM.

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I only got one response- when the domain is removed from the field the
values appear again.
Thank you Dan.

So I looked at the database that is created when you create a Geodatabase
and found that
the old values are stored in an access database. I also found that when you
use domain values
the data will not disappear if the domain values match EXACTLY with
existing values. Since the database
that is created is in access, is their any way to import values from
another table and use those values as
domain values, it does not seem to create a table of domain values. is
their anyway to make one that the
goedatabase will recognize as a domain list. there seems to be some tables
that relate to domains.

if so you could run a unique query on your desired field and import the
list to a domain table and
use that to populate the disappearing values.

does anyone have any ideas on how this can be done? or a good source of
finding out more
information about the access table that is created?
Alynne