topic Re: cant find scratch.gdb in Data Management Questions

cant find scratch.gdb

AllenMasomere — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 22:20:22 GMT

Working on assignment that requires me to set up a scratch.gdb. Cannot find this gdb file on the zip file provided. New to GIS and lost. Tried to set up scratch workspace from Geo-processing menu without success. Second time around asking the same question.

Re: cant find scratch.gdb

DanPatterson_Retired — Thu, 03 Aug 2017 01:39:21 GMT

Allen...

ArcMap? ArcGIS Pro?

Zip provided a *.gdb or not?

Was a project included? If so, don't do anything until you explore the projects properties and references to it.

A few more details would go a long way

Re: cant find scratch.gdb

Asrujit_SenGupta — Thu, 03 Aug 2017 09:16:44 GMT

Duplicate post of https://community.esri.com/thread/199003-cant-find-scratchgdb

jayanta.poddar‌ has provided answer to your questions in the other post, so please revert back there letting everyone know if that helped or not.

Refrain from asking the same question again in a separate post. That does not help.

Re: cant find scratch.gdb

RebeccaStrauch__GISP — Thu, 03 Aug 2017 15:30:25 GMT

To add to asrujit_pb comment about not duplicating posts, please take a look at https://community.esri.com/community/help-and-feedback/blog/2016/08/15/community-news-and-tips-how-to-ask-questions-and-get-answers?sr=search&searchId=548f6a5e-2b87-4d04-9cc2-b4a1b1c11322&searchIndex=0‌ including the comments. There are some good tips there to get you started right on geonet.

I will mark this post as assumed answered to close the thread.

Re: cant find scratch.gdb

AllenMasomere — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 21:47:24 GMT

I think I might have been getting a little desperate for answers and i attempted to rephrase the question. I replied to Jayant's post to say that it was not working for me. My apologies for any inconveniences and thanks for your help.

Re: cant find scratch.gdb

AllenMasomere — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 22:05:29 GMT

Thanks, Dan. I am working on a class project in ARCMAP and the instructions say I should be able to 'find' my scratch.gdb. This is the very first time I am encountering the concept of a scratch.gdb in this class so it's not as if I have had to previously set it up and it's now lost. My assumption is that it should be on the zip file but there is results.gdb and source.gdb on the file, NOT scratch.gdb. In the previous lesson, I had to find my source.gdb and it was on the zip file. See instructions below:1.7

"Find your scratch geodatabase. ArcGIS will open a geodatabase picker (notice the Show of type option at the bottom). If you've been strictly following this lab, then it's going to try showing you the contents of the source geodatabase since we used that recently. Instead, navigate up one folder to your data folder (recall the up one folder arrow if you don't know how). 1. Click on your scratch geodatabase (scratch.gdb). Don't double click to open it though - just a single click. 2. Then click Add. 3. Click OK out of the Map Document Properties dialog (not shown). ArcGIS will now put working products in that scratch geodatabase where we can find them later.

Re: cant find scratch.gdb

DanPatterson_Retired — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 22:11:43 GMT

Allen... If the scratch.gdb isn't in the folder that it is in, then use ArcCatalog to create one in the required location... that is about all you can do if it isn't there

Re: cant find scratch.gdb

AllenMasomere — Sun, 06 Aug 2017 19:00:28 GMT

Thanks again Dan. I am entirely unfamiliar with arc catalogue so I would not know where to start. Anyway, thanks to all that tried to help.

Re: cant find scratch.gdb

DanPatterson_Retired — Sun, 06 Aug 2017 19:54:49 GMT

Check the help Create File Geodatabase describes options

Re: cant find scratch.gdb

AllenMasomere — Sun, 06 Aug 2017 23:30:52 GMT

Thanks Dan. That worked!

Re: cant find scratch.gdb

DanPatterson_Retired — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 00:40:02 GMT

Glad it worked out... Assumed answered is now true

Re: cant find scratch.gdb

curtvprice — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 03:21:48 GMT

I'm wondering whether the tutorial workflow is totally correct to make a scratch.gdb.... A scratch geodatabase 'scratch.gdb' is often created for you automatically by models and tools that reference it, though you can create one yourself using the Create File GDB tool (as Dan suggested) and it will be used if found where ArcGIS expects it based on the current workspace settings.

Scratch GDB (Environment setting)—Help | ArcGIS Desktop