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classes have the same schema… could be done pretty quickly;</p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal">Searching all folders can be
done a bit easier when you know what you’re looking for, in this case <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1258468729_0">File</span>
geodatabases.</p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal">Though in this case you can’t
just start at the highest level since the destination rests in the same folder
structure… but something like this would work</p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"> - just some quick
sample code below, it’s not completed just showing an easy way to search the
folders...........<br></p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal">-// (forward slashes are
comments)</p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal">C#</p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal">//base path to folders</p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal">string basePath = @”C:\myData\Land_Mgmt\”;</p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal">//destination path</p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal">string destinationPath = @”C:\myData\Land_Mgmt\Statewide\LeaseManagement.gdb”;</p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal">//4 regions</p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal">string[] foldersToSearch = {“Region_I”,
“Region_II”, “Region_III”, “Region_IV”};</p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal">foreach (string folder in
foldersToSearch)</p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal">{</p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"> //get all <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1258468729_1">gdb
files</span> from folder(s) – searchoption will search all sub-folders</p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"> string
fileNames[] = Directory.GetFiles(basePath + folder, “*.gdb”,
SearchOption.AllDirectories);</p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"> foreach(string
file in filenames)</p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"> {</p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"> //create
a file object (easy reference to file)</p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"> FileInfo
pFileInfo = new FileInfo(file);</p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"> //open
the gdb</p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"> //have
a statement recursively opening the 6 featureclasses</p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"> //search
all features</p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"> //append
to destinationPath</p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"> }</p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal">}</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">I need a way to search
through an undetermined number of folders and file geodatabases within these
folders for specific feature classes ("by name", 6 unique names) and
then append all the features from like feature classes into 6 feature classes
with the same unique names inside another file geodatabase. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">I need to go from having 100
File GDBs, with a total of 600 feature classes and about 12,000 features -- to
having 1 FGDB with 6 feature classes with about 12,000 features…a user’s
sick joke. I told them when they started this project to use one gdb and
filter, but they insisted on having separate gdbs and now they want the ability
to periodically consolidate them.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">I have a basic understanding
of the List methods for workspaces and feature classes, but I have yet to
figure out how to integrate the sys module’s capacity to recursively
search through folders and create the lists at the same time so that I can
append all 12,000 features to the 6 feature classes.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">The attached bmp shows the
basic folder hierarchy that I am dealing with and where I want the data to flow
from and to.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Any thoughts would be greatly
appreciated.</span></p>
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