Blog discussion - Convert a personal geodatabase in ArcGIS Pro 3.7

ElaineEvans

✨ Introducing the new Convert Personal Geodatabase tool in ArcGIS Pro 3.7! 

This tool provides a reliable way to migrate 10.x personal geodatabases directly within ArcGIS Pro, no ArcMap required.

Although ArcGIS Pro does not natively support personal geodatabases, the tool converts unsupported .mdb files into modern geodatabase formats, giving you a clear and efficient path forward.

👉 To learn more, check out the blog, Convert a personal geodatabase in ArcGIS Pro 3.7 with a new tool.

📣 If you have a comment that you'd like to share about this specific blog or the Convert Personal Geodatabase tool, we'd love to hear from you in the comment section below!  

Hornbydd

This is a tool that will have far reaching impacts for many organisations. Where I work we have many legacy projects that were built using personal geodatabases. I support staff who have a long history of using ArcMap and personal geodatabases. With Universities forced by esri to drop support for ArcMap there are many projects with datasets that are sitting in project folders in these older formats. In true academic style these projects often have a habit of bubbling back to the surface years later, so having a way to transfer them into file geodatabases is critical.

Now esri might have said in the past you need to migrate, the rest of the WORLD would responded saying who has time for that! Especially projects that have come to the end of their funding.  I feel this new tool is that "get out of jail" card! Use it when we need to.

I can already think of several projects I could save from obsolescence! Nice.