topic Cannot find file in File Geodatabase API Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/file-geodatabase-api-questions/cannot-find-file/m-p/306013#M492 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I am just trying to get some very basic features going. I modified the Display sample project to use an absolute file path for the geodatabase: </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>if ((hr = OpenGeodatabase(L"D:\\Work\\Include\\FileGDB_API_VS2008_1_3\\samples\\data\\Querying.gdb";, geodatabase)) != S_OK)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; return hr;</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Which works fine.&nbsp; But if I include this very same line in another project that I wrote(MSVS2008) I get hr = -2147024894 every time, indicating that the file cannot be found.&nbsp; Obviously the file </SPAN><SPAN style="font-style:italic;">could</SPAN><SPAN> be found, because I can open it in the sample project that way but apparently it is looking differently.&nbsp; As far I can tell the two projects are using the same setting for character sets and so forth.&nbsp; So what is going on here?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 17 Dec 2012 15:50:24 GMT EricCox 2012-12-17T15:50:24Z Cannot find file https://community.esri.com/t5/file-geodatabase-api-questions/cannot-find-file/m-p/306013#M492 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I am just trying to get some very basic features going. I modified the Display sample project to use an absolute file path for the geodatabase: </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>if ((hr = OpenGeodatabase(L"D:\\Work\\Include\\FileGDB_API_VS2008_1_3\\samples\\data\\Querying.gdb";, geodatabase)) != S_OK)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; return hr;</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Which works fine.&nbsp; But if I include this very same line in another project that I wrote(MSVS2008) I get hr = -2147024894 every time, indicating that the file cannot be found.&nbsp; Obviously the file </SPAN><SPAN style="font-style:italic;">could</SPAN><SPAN> be found, because I can open it in the sample project that way but apparently it is looking differently.&nbsp; As far I can tell the two projects are using the same setting for character sets and so forth.&nbsp; So what is going on here?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 17 Dec 2012 15:50:24 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/file-geodatabase-api-questions/cannot-find-file/m-p/306013#M492 EricCox 2012-12-17T15:50:24Z