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Thank you for the overwrite suggestion. To clarify a bit, I am trying to take multiple shapefiles from a single folder without having to name each folder and output. Some folders have as many as 30 shapefiles. I am trying to organize these shapefiles into a geodatabase in each folder. I do not want to have to go through each folder, which there are at least 100 folders, identify each and every shapefile and modify the script to do so. I hope this clears things up a bit and I did not make it worse.

Gary Holmstrom
– Gary Holmstrom

2018-01-31 14:36:28 +00:00
Commented Jan 31, 2018 at 14:36
@GaryHolmstrom Please edit your original question to include these pertinent details.

Aaron
– Aaron ♦

2018-01-31 17:50:00 +00:00
Commented Jan 31, 2018 at 17:50
Easy way is to get a list of folders, and for each folder, copy the shapefiles in to the FGDB and append folder name to it (front or back of it). End result on file GDB with a bunch of Featureclasses. Other option is read folder name, make a dataset in the FGDB, copy shapefiles from folder into Dataset, step to next folder. ***However,all shapefiles in folder will need to be in same projection to be copied into dataset.

Bill Chappell
– Bill Chappell

2018-01-31 18:29:26 +00:00
Commented Jan 31, 2018 at 18:29

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