topic Making a geodatabase portable in Data Management Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/making-a-geodatabase-portable/m-p/140244#M8096 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I need to know how I can make a geodatabase portable.&nbsp; In other words, is there a way that I can give the geodatabase and it's associated layers and catalogs relative references.&nbsp; I know that I can create a map (mxd file) and have it make all layers in the map file have relative path references, but I don't know if I can do that with a geodatabase.&nbsp; My experimentation so far has been inconclusive. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I need to be able to copy a geodatabase from one computer to another, and have the destination geodatabase and it's catalogs have all of the repaired (correct) paths.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>So my question is, is it possible to have a relative path setup (or something similar) between a file geodatabase and its MA catalog(s)?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Renee</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 05 Oct 2010 12:02:03 GMT MarkCammarere 2010-10-05T12:02:03Z Making a geodatabase portable https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/making-a-geodatabase-portable/m-p/140244#M8096 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I need to know how I can make a geodatabase portable.&nbsp; In other words, is there a way that I can give the geodatabase and it's associated layers and catalogs relative references.&nbsp; I know that I can create a map (mxd file) and have it make all layers in the map file have relative path references, but I don't know if I can do that with a geodatabase.&nbsp; My experimentation so far has been inconclusive. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I need to be able to copy a geodatabase from one computer to another, and have the destination geodatabase and it's catalogs have all of the repaired (correct) paths.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>So my question is, is it possible to have a relative path setup (or something similar) between a file geodatabase and its MA catalog(s)?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Renee</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 05 Oct 2010 12:02:03 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/making-a-geodatabase-portable/m-p/140244#M8096 MarkCammarere 2010-10-05T12:02:03Z