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I've recently started working with QGIS after my ArcMap student licence expired. I'm trying to open files in a geodatabase created in ArcMap but most of the files in it are missing (.shp). The program simply doesn't recognize them (though a browse through the file itself shows they are there - not accidentally deleted).

If this is a compatibility problem, then how can I get access to the files in QGIS without using ArcMap?

I now also notice that rasters are not opening and that the files are locked

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    You cant (shouldnt!) store shapefiles inside a file geodatabase. Are you sure you have shapefiles inside a file geodatabase and not a file geodatabase with feature classes? Try copy pasting them to a normal folder using windows file explorer then try QGIS again
    – Bera
    Commented Oct 12, 2020 at 7:23
  • It worked partially. I might have been mistaken and have a file geodatabase with feature classes' as you said. when I copied the file elsewhere it showed a few more but not everything I had in there.
    – Neta Friedman
    Commented Oct 12, 2020 at 7:42
  • Rasters aren't supported with file geodatabase access APIs. You are unlikely to extract them without access to an ArcGIS license.
    – Vince
    Commented Oct 12, 2020 at 13:33

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You shouldn't open files directly from the .gdb folder.
What you should do is use the Data Source Manager and select the GeoDataBase folder, and within it select the layers.

The Process is explained here.

You can also see the layers from the browser, the .gdb folder appears there like a GeoPackage database.

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  • This worked perfectly for the feature files, but QGIS still doesn't recognize my DEMs, which are in a different .gdb. any suggestions?
    – Neta Friedman
    Commented Oct 12, 2020 at 11:52
  • This will probably be annoying, but maybe convert them with ogr2ogr? I am not entirely sure that rasters within gdb are supported by gdal, which will mean they might not be supported in QGIS.
    – Dror Bogin
    Commented Oct 12, 2020 at 12:02

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