I think this is a fairly easy question so apologies. Someone sent me a .gdb in Google Drive. When I download it to my computer, it is a file folder with all the .gdb contents in it. I can't figure out how to add it as a .gdb in ArcCatalog – I know it must be straightforward but I'd be very grateful if someone could explain it to me. Thanks in advance!
[GIS] Downloading Geodatabase to ArcCatalog
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Best Answer
An Esri File Geodatabase consists of multiple individual files stored within a directory with the extension ".gdb"
If this is appearing in ArcCatalog as a folder, rather than a geodatabase, it is likely that the geodatabase is corrupt, possibly as a result of being shared via Google Drive.
Try asking the original sender to zip the entire *.gdb folder and send you the zip file, to avoid the corruption.