{"id":171261,"date":"2010-08-12T18:50:37","date_gmt":"2010-08-12T18:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=171261"},"modified":"2018-12-18T11:46:43","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T19:46:43","slug":"creating-an-earlier-version-of-a-file-or-personal-geodatabase","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-desktop\/data-management\/creating-an-earlier-version-of-a-file-or-personal-geodatabase","title":{"rendered":"Creating an earlier version of a file or personal geodatabase"},"author":3981,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[23851],"tags":[25311,25371,25381],"industry":[],"product":[36991],"class_list":["post-171261","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data-management","tag-arcgis-10","tag-geodata","tag-geodatabase","product-arcgis-desktop"],"acf":{"short_description":"When moving to a new release of ArcGIS, it\u2019s common for an organization to migrate some of their users to the new release,.","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>When moving to a new release of ArcGIS, it\u2019s common for an organization to migrate some of their users to the new release, while leaving others at the current release. One example of where this is necessary is in a distributed environment, it\u2019s not always possible for the users who are off-site to upgrade to the latest release of ArcGIS at the same time as the central office.<\/p>\n<p>This has always posed a problem when it came time to share data between users at different releases of ArcGIS.\u00a0 When the geodatabase is upgraded to the latest release, as with ArcGIS 10, it\u2019s not always possible for previous releases of ArcGIS to connect to and use those geodatabases. 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