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Cannot read ESRI Personal Geodatabase (.mdb) with FME 2015.0

  • August 19, 2015
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arnold_bijlsma
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I have FME Desktop Professional Edition 2015.0 (64-bit) installed and am trying to read an ESRI Personal Geodatabase (.mdb), but it is not available as one of my Reader formats. Am I understanding correctly from this page that I cannot, whilst the 32-bit version can:

 

https://knowledge.safe.com/articles/Samples_and_Demos/Notes-on-FME-and-ESRI-Versions-and-Compatibility#toc5 ?

 

 

Is there some other way I can read an ESRI Personal Geodatabase (.mdb) using my version of FME, e.g. by downloadable plugin?

Best answer by david_r

Hi

 

 

The plugin is called FME Desktop 32-bit ;-)

 

 

FME relies on ArcGIS libraries to read/write to the ESRI Geodatabase family of formats, and as far as I can tell the 64-bit version of those (ArcGIS Pro) does not currently support Personal Geodatabases.

 

 

If you do not need the spatial data (attributes only), you can use the MS Access reader, however.

 

 

David

 

 
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  • August 19, 2015
Hi

 

 

The plugin is called FME Desktop 32-bit ;-)

 

 

FME relies on ArcGIS libraries to read/write to the ESRI Geodatabase family of formats, and as far as I can tell the 64-bit version of those (ArcGIS Pro) does not currently support Personal Geodatabases.

 

 

If you do not need the spatial data (attributes only), you can use the MS Access reader, however.

 

 

David

 

 

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