Failed to connect to database.

Question

Hi,

I created a gdb last summer using ArcGIS 10.0. I'm just now trying to copy that gdb to a different location on our server, and when I try to connect, it gives me the error "Failed to connect to database." I thought this was a copying issue, but when I go back to the original gdb I get the same error. I had made multiple backup copies of the gdb at the time and they all produce the same error as well. We're now using ArcGIS 10.1 so is this maybe the issue? Is there a way to connect to these geodatabases again?

Any info would be useful.

Thanks!

VinceAngelo · Answer

Did you apply the Microsoft update that corrupts file geodatabases on network drives?

- V

JoeBorgione · Answer

It's a file geodatabase. I have access to the drive where the geodatabase is. But there might have been some folder restructuring that I was unaware of. Would this cause problems?

'Folder restructuring' might be translated to 'the network guys tinkered around with stuff and didn't bother to tell anyone'.....

I'm sticking with a permission issue as the primary cause, only because I've had fits and fights with them in the past.  First with login changes, then with SAN changes, blah blah blah.

Can you 'see' the database in ArcCatalog? If so, perhaps you can upgrade the database to 10.1 and see if that does it.  I know that 10.1 is supposed to see 10.0 data, but....

MelissaVanDeKerckhove · Answer

It's a file geodatabase. I have access to the drive where the geodatabase is. But there might have been some folder restructuring that I was unaware of. Would this cause problems?