topic Re: Geodatabase Help please... in Data Management Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/geodatabase-help-please/m-p/714305#M40472 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Are you sure it's a geodatabase?&nbsp; What flavor?&nbsp; When you say it shows up in windows explorer, what does it show up as: a microsoft access file (mdb) or a directory (gdb)?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>A personal geodatabase is an access database on steroids and it carries the extension of .mdb.&nbsp; Nothing more, nothing less.&nbsp; Just an access database with a bunch of extra tables built in so it works geographically.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>A file geodatabase is a proprietary database by ESRI and it carries the extention of .gdb; it will show up in windows explorer as a directory with a bunch of meaningless files inside it when you expand the directory.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 05 Jul 2011 19:53:59 GMT JoeBorgione 2011-07-05T19:53:59Z Geodatabase Help please... https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/geodatabase-help-please/m-p/714304#M40471 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Why would my geodatabase (that I have received from somebody else) only be visible in windows explorer and not arc catalog?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>using v 9.3 ArcGIS</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>thanks</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 05 Jul 2011 10:47:25 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/geodatabase-help-please/m-p/714304#M40471 alecmajor 2011-07-05T10:47:25Z Re: Geodatabase Help please... https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/geodatabase-help-please/m-p/714305#M40472 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Are you sure it's a geodatabase?&nbsp; What flavor?&nbsp; When you say it shows up in windows explorer, what does it show up as: a microsoft access file (mdb) or a directory (gdb)?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>A personal geodatabase is an access database on steroids and it carries the extension of .mdb.&nbsp; Nothing more, nothing less.&nbsp; Just an access database with a bunch of extra tables built in so it works geographically.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>A file geodatabase is a proprietary database by ESRI and it carries the extention of .gdb; it will show up in windows explorer as a directory with a bunch of meaningless files inside it when you expand the directory.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 05 Jul 2011 19:53:59 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/geodatabase-help-please/m-p/714305#M40472 JoeBorgione 2011-07-05T19:53:59Z