Failed to connect to database.

[MelissaVanDeKerckhove]

Hi,

I created a gdb last summer using ArcGIS 10.0. I'm just now trying to copy that gdb to a different location on our server, and when I try to connect, it gives me the error "Failed to connect to database." I thought this was a copying issue, but when I go back to the original gdb I get the same error. I had made multiple backup copies of the gdb at the time and they all produce the same error as well. We're now using ArcGIS 10.1 so is this maybe the issue? Is there a way to connect to these geodatabases again?

Any info would be useful.

Thanks!

[JoeBorgione]

Hi,

I created a gdb last summer using ArcGIS 10.0. I'm just now trying to copy that gdb to a different location on our server, and when I try to connect, it gives me the error "Failed to connect to database." I thought this was a copying issue, but when I go back to the original gdb I get the same error. I had made multiple backup copies of the gdb at the time and they all produce the same error as well. We're now using ArcGIS 10.1 so is this maybe the issue? Is there a way to connect to these geodatabases again?

Any info would be useful.

Thanks!

Perhaps you could provide a little more info like is this an SDE database?  If so what flavor? Are you using a client connect or a direct connect?

Is it a file geodatabase?  Have you checked that your login has read access to the drive where the database resides?

[MelissaVanDeKerckhove]

It's a file geodatabase. I have access to the drive where the geodatabase is. But there might have been some folder restructuring that I was unaware of. Would this cause problems?

[JoeBorgione]

It's a file geodatabase. I have access to the drive where the geodatabase is. But there might have been some folder restructuring that I was unaware of. Would this cause problems?

'Folder restructuring' might be translated to 'the network guys tinkered around with stuff and didn't bother to tell anyone'.....

I'm sticking with a permission issue as the primary cause, only because I've had fits and fights with them in the past.  First with login changes, then with SAN changes, blah blah blah. 

Can you 'see' the database in ArcCatalog? If so, perhaps you can upgrade the database to 10.1 and see if that does it.  I know that 10.1 is supposed to see 10.0 data, but....

[VinceAngelo]

Did you apply the Microsoft update that corrupts file geodatabases on network drives?

- V