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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">I ran into the same problem. Luckily,
      my data provider re-exported the 4.5GB GDB file for me, using the
      newer ArcGIS 10.<br>
      Here's a heads-up for two <i>other </i>potential problems,
      though:<br>
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        <li>The second GDB still wouldn't load because the data were
          saved as having a "custom" SRS (spatial ref sys). The FileGDB
          utility that ogr2ogr uses -- and as provided by Esri -- will
          only work on a "standard" SRS. Luckily, my data provider again
          (cheerfully?) re-exported the 4.5GB GDB file for me, using a
          standard SRS!</li>
        <li>There was a problem with OGR in the change from 1.9.1
          (2012/05/15) to 1.9.2 (2012-10-08), when using FileGDB.
          The ogr2ogr process won't work using version 1.9.2 -- but will
          when using 1.9.1. (The cause: incompatible Visual Studio
          compilations of ogr2ogr and fileGDB.)</li>
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      Hope that helps save you most of the time that i wasted ;-)<br>
      <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Martin Feuchtwanger  <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:feumar@shaw.ca">feumar@shaw.ca</a>  604-254-0361
302 - 1429 E 4th Ave,  Vancouver, BC  V5N 1J6
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://members.shaw.ca/geomatics.developer">http://members.shaw.ca/geomatics.developer</a>
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      On 26/01/2013 1:56 PM, Stephen V. Mather wrote:<br>
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      <div>AFAI know, all 9.x FGDBs are a locked inaccessible format to
        all without ArcGIS license.  Problem fixed with 10.x w/ release
        of a library, but no help for 9.x trapped data.<br>
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      <div>Steve Mather</div>
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        On Jan 26, 2013, at 4:47 PM, "charlie" <<a
          moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:carowan@yahoo.com">carowan@yahoo.com</a>>
        wrote:<br>
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                          I downloaded a large 1.5G file saved in the
                          ESRI Geodatabase format ( .gdb -Not the ESRI
                          Personal Geodatabase, which is supported)
                          <span style="font-size:12pt;"
                            id="yiv1566960135yui_3_7_2_20_1359047209942_81">that
                            I am looking to import into a PostGIS
                            database.  According to the metadata,
                          </span><span style="font-size:12pt;"
                            id="yiv1566960135yui_3_7_2_20_1359047209942_81"><span
                              class="st">ArcGIS 9.3.1 was
                            </span>used to create the  </span><span
                            style="font-size:12pt;"
                            id="yiv1566960135yui_3_7_2_20_1359047209942_81">.gdb
                            database.</span></div>
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                          I checked both:  ogr2ogr<a
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                            href="http://www.gdal.org/ogr2ogr.html">
                            http://www.gdal.org/ogr2ogr.html</a><br>
                          and  <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                            href="http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_filegdb.html">http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_filegdb.html</a>,
                          which offers a solution, but only for
                          <span style="font-size:12pt;"
                            id="yiv1566960135yui_3_7_2_20_1359047209942_81"><span
                              class="st">ArcGIS
                            </span></span>versions 10.0 and above.<br
                            id="yiv1566960135yui_3_7_2_16_1359066807833_116">
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                            'new york', times,
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                            class="yiv1566960135yui_3_7_2_16_1359066807833_58"
id="yiv1566960135yui_3_7_2_16_1359066807833_80">Is anyone aware of a
                            utility or solution  that supports importing
                            a </span><span
                            class="yui_3_7_2_16_1359235788490_73"
                            style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new
                            york', times, serif;font-size:12pt;"
                            id="yiv1566960135yui_3_7_2_16_1359066807833_87">ESRI
                            Geodatabase created by
                          </span><span style="font-family:'times new
                            roman', 'new york', times,
                            serif;font-size:12pt;"
                            id="yiv1566960135yui_3_7_2_16_1359066807833_87"><span
                              style="font-size:12pt;"
                              id="yiv1566960135yui_3_7_2_20_1359047209942_81"><span
                                class="st">ArcGIS 9.3.1</span></span>?<br>
                            <br>
                            Charli
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