I have a new Arc 10 file geodatabase called Base.gdb stored on my local hard drive. Today after editing, I am no longer able to access the file gdb in either Catalog or Arc. I created this file gdb in Arc 10 about two months ago and have been working on it ever since. All the work done on the file gdb was in Arc 10.
Today, I added and deleted some records in one feature class - very simple editing in ArcInfo in a brand new mxd. I deleted several polygons, and I created new ones and I believe I split two polygons, one into two polygons and one into three polygons. Of possible interest is that the polygon feature class is linked to an annotation feature class. I had that open at the same time to verify that the changes in the polygon feature class were continuing in the annotation feature class. The editing went fine and I was able to verify that my edits 'took' after saving.
I then compacted the fgdb. After that I was no longer able to connect to the fgdb via Arc.
I am running Arc 10, Service Pack 2, ArcInfo desktop license. The computer is running Windows 7 with 4GB memory, Intel Xeon dual 2GHz processors. No back up programs were running at the time the fgdb became inaccessible.
I had Windows Outlook open and MS Excel open (which I do everyday) when the error occurred. This is the first time I had this problem with a file gdb.
I would appreciate if Esri would check into this problem, as it seems to continue and is not affected by the service pack.
Thanks!
Katie Kelleher