Another "Failed to connect to database"

[ChrisPratt]

Hello,

I am using 10 (sp1), info license. I was editing some data this morning. After I completed the editing, I compacted the file geodatabase. After compacting, I was no longer able to access the database, receiving a "Failed to connect to database" message. The description tab states "The item's XML contains errors."

This is not an issue of a 9x verses a 10 geodatabase. I created this in 10 and have been successfully storing and accessing data since I created it.

Any ideas, thoughts, or suggestions before I recreate it from scratch

Chris

[ValCannon]

I had this problem as well. The fix worked. Big sigh of relief.
Change of workflow...back up, then compact.

[LucasDanzinger]

I believe the issue of receiving this error after compacting geodatabases was addressed in SP3.

http://resources.arcgis.com/content/patches-and-service-packs?fa=viewPatch&PID=17&MetaID=1807

[MichellePearson]

This has just happened to my intern without the compacting step.  Editing was not turned on.  She was printing maps from a series of mxd files that contain the same source data, so it had been accessed multiple times this morning (not touched for 2 or 3 weeks before this).  Her screen froze, so she closed the mxd and re-opened it to find red exclamation marks on all layers connected to the file geodatabase. 

It's not clear to me whether installing SP3 will allow me to re-establish the connection to the database or prevent future incidents from happening.  Is our geodatabase (and 6 months of work) gone?

[LanceShipman]

Are you able to connect to the file geodatabase via ArcCatalog? If not, what do you see under the file geodatabase directory?