Stop recreating missing geodatabases

[MicheleH1_DNReply]

It would be great if ArcPro would stop recreating missing file geodatabases.  I deliberately renamed a file geodatabase (actually a few) and I did this in File Explorer - 'cos it's faster.  Then when I reopened the project it breaks all my links (expected) but recreates an empty file geodatabase with the old name.

This is not useful - if a geodatabase is missing it's generally because of a deliberate choice on the part of the user and recreating an empty geodatabase is just creating clutter that I have to remember to clean up.

And if it's not a deliberate choice - if some one has accidentally moved or deleted the geodatabase - what is the point of recreating an empty one?  The data is still missing.

Can we have this behavior stopped - or perhaps there is a way of stopping it already?  If so - could we have this as the default.  I have users unknowingly making empty geodatabases all over the show and it's becoming a problem.

Thanks heaps.

[Alison_Mynsberge]

My guess as to why this doesn't have more kudos is that folks have still grudgingly been moving from ArcMap to Pro, and simply haven't noticed the new & exciting problem of ghost directories being created yet.  I've mostly been doing enterprise work in Pro and not moving .aprx files, so only when someone complained about folders being created in a new directory where I'd copied some .aprx files over and folks had just opened 2 of them AND someone shared that Pro doesn't even properly copy .sde connections did I put together that the ghost directories were created by some of us browsing some older .aprx files that weren't moved together with their default project junk folders/files.