https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/auto-generated-project-gdb-avoid-or-delete/m-p/1263350#M66108 <P>Is there any way to avoid ArcGIS Pro from creating a new Geodatabase with a new project?</P><P>If not, I also notice I cannot delete from within ArcGIS (Catalog)</P><P>Any answers or explanations?</P> Thu, 02 Mar 2023 00:05:21 GMT Craig_Eissler_Iceman 2023-03-02T00:05:21Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/auto-generated-project-gdb-avoid-or-delete/m-p/1263350#M66108 <P>Is there any way to avoid ArcGIS Pro from creating a new Geodatabase with a new project?</P><P>If not, I also notice I cannot delete from within ArcGIS (Catalog)</P><P>Any answers or explanations?</P> Thu, 02 Mar 2023 00:05:21 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/auto-generated-project-gdb-avoid-or-delete/m-p/1263350#M66108 Craig_Eissler_Iceman 2023-03-02T00:05:21Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/auto-generated-project-gdb-avoid-or-delete/m-p/1263354#M66110 <P>A geodatabase is used for one of the default output locations for geoprocessing tools and I am not sure of a way to just not have one referenced, but you can set this geodatabase to be the same for all projects so you don't get one created each time. You can set this functionality and the location of this geodatabase in the options of Pro.</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="mattkramer_0-1677715955319.png" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.esri.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/64126i4B01F64FC2F78488/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="mattkramer_0-1677715955319.png" alt="mattkramer_0-1677715955319.png" /></span></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Thu, 02 Mar 2023 00:13:25 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/auto-generated-project-gdb-avoid-or-delete/m-p/1263354#M66110 mattkramer 2023-03-02T00:13:25Z