Organizing Your Data With Arccatalog: Creating A New Workspace
Organizing Your Data With Arccatalog: Creating A New Workspace
Right-click any existing folder in the Catalog tree to add a new folder. You can then create new datasets in the
workspace, or copy them in from other locations. You can also add subfolders to further organize your data.
Right-click the new workspace to add subfolders or to create new GIS datasets
in the workspace.
Right-click a workspace or dataset to copy, delete, or rename it (when you delete a workspace, all its contents are also
deleted). To move a workspace, simply drag it to a new location.
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To learn more about a dataset or other item, right-click it to open its Properties dialog box. You can, for example,
display the source information for the dataset, view its coordinate system parameters, and display a list of its attributed
elds. Different data formats have different properties dialog boxes.
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