[GIS] Saving Shapefile to File Geodatabase in QGIS 2.2

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I'm using QGIS 2.2 64-bit and able to read feature classes from an ESRI file geodatabase without a problem. The problem occurs when I attempt to save a layer to a file geodatabase by right-clicking on the layer and selecting "Save As." I have "ESRI FileGDB" selected as the desired format and enter a name for the exported feature class. The result is a file geodatabase created with the name of the feature class and an error message

Export to vector file failed.

Error: creation of layer failed (OGR error:Error: Failed at creating
FeatureDataset (General function failure.))

Any idea why the feature class export to a file geodatabase fails?

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Writing to a File Geodatabase is not possible by default in QGIS. If you reference the OGR page (which is the list of formats that you are able to use in QGIS) you will see the following:

No, needs FileGDB API library

I do not use File GDB myself, so I will not be able to assist you any further. Here is the location of that page:

http://www.gdal.org/ogr_formats.html

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[GIS] Accessing feature classes in file geodatabases using Python and GDAL

You're almost there. This is on Windows 7, Python 2.6.5 32bit, and GDAL 1.9.0:

>>> from osgeo import ogr
>>> driver = ogr.GetDriverByName("FileGDB")
>>> ds = driver.Open(r"C:\temp\buildings.gdb", 0)
>>> ds
<osgeo.ogr.DataSource; proxy of <Swig Object of type 'OGRDataSourceShadow *' at 0x02BB7038> >
>>> ds.GetLayer("buildings")
<osgeo.ogr.Layer; proxy of <Swig Object of type 'OGRLayerShadow *' at 0x02BB7050> >
>>> b = ds.GetLayer("buildings")
>>> sr = b.GetSpatialRef()
>>> sr
<osgeo.osr.SpatialReference; proxy of <Swig Object of type 'OSRSpatialReferenceShadow *' at 0x02BB7080> >
>>> sr.ExportToProj4()
'+proj=utm +zone=15 +ellps=GRS80 +towgs84=0,0,0,0,0,0,0 +units=m +no_defs '
>>>

Once you open the FGDB, then use GetLayer to get at your featureclass.

[GIS] Exporting geodata from QGIS to Esri File Geodatabase

You can create one off file geodatabases(s) by right clicking on the layer in the Layers TOC>Save As, and change the format type to ESRI FileGDB:

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Does not appear to be a way to export various features classes though to one geodatabase from the GUI.

Alternativly, you could create your separate tables in a SQLite DB within QGIS, and use OSGeo4W Shell (should be installed with your QGIS) using ogr2ogr command line to convert from SQLite to ESRI FileGDB, see example expression below:

ogr2ogr -f "FileGDB" C:/Temp/Temp.gdb C:/Temp/Temp.sqlite

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