How to remove/delete MyProject folder and geodatabase

Craig_Eissler_Iceman

How can I remove or delete the MyProject folders and geodatabase from Catalog? (see below)

Or, better yet, is there a good way to avoid this in the first place?

Thanks,

 

Hayden Welch

Every project needs a default database. You can reassign that database to whatever you want after it's created, but without somewhere to write data, there's no way to run geoprocessing tools.

You can't delete it while the project is open (or immediately after it's closed) because ArcPro will maintain a lock on the default database that tells Windows to not allow it to be deleted.

What I tend to do is just rename my default database to "scratch.gdb". It's useful to have for intermediate operations on SDE datasets, like copying out some features, running another operation, then validating that workflow before committing those edits to the main data store.

If you want a "Default" or "Scratch" folder in your project, you can create one and move your scratch stuff there. I usually set up project templates that way so the directory structure is more human readable.