Convert or import .amp project into ArcMap

[DaveSchoettle]

A consultant has provided our organization with a mobile project on a Windows 8 tablet.  This project is in the form of a .amp file, a few other files and 3 subfolders called basemap, mobile map and mobile additions.  I have been successful in working with this project in  the Mobile Project Center, and can now download it to other computers from our server. 

I have now been instructed to publish this project as a mobile service.  I have read the documentation on this subject, but seem to be missing one step.  How can I get this .amp project into ArcMap so I can publish it?  Dragging the file in gives an error, and I haven't found any way to import it.

[TimHopper]

You have to have the original geodatabase / feature classes that the mobile project was created from.  You can't export features from a mobile cache - you can only synchronize with the original features that were used to create the cache.

Normally the workflow goes:

1. Create mxd from feature classes in a geodatabase.
2. Create mobile cache via geoprocessing tools or by publishing as a service.
3. Create mobile project in Mobile Project Center and incorporate the mobile cache or service created in step 2.
4. Perform field work in the mobile app.
5. Synchronize edits using geoprocessing tools or via the mobile application by synchronizing with a service.

These files (mobile caches) were never meant to be exported out to a set of feature classes, only synchronized with the feature classes they were originally created from.

There's a mobile cache tool on the resource center that you can use to export features out to shapefiles (which you could then import into a geodatabase and create a new map / mobile service), but it's pretty touchy and only works in select older versions.

My advice would be to contact the consultant who gave you the project originally and ask for the geodatabase / feature classes and the mxd if they're willing.