Using ArcCatalog

Choosing which
raster dataset
formats appear in
ArcCatalog
Displaying specific raster
formats
1. Click the Tools menu and
click Options.
2. Click the Raster tab.
3. Click the General tab.
4. Click File Formats.
5. Click the option to Search
only files that match the
following file extensions to
find valid raster formats.
6. Uncheck the formats you
don’t want to see as rasters
in the Catalog.
Check the formats you want
to see in the Catalog.
7. Click OK, click OK.
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The raster dataset formats that
can be directly accessed by
ArcCatalog are listed in the
Raster tab of the Options dialog
box and described in the online
Help topic, ‘Supported raster
dataset formats’.
At times, you may not want to
see all types of raster datasets
in the Catalog. For example, the
same data may be stored in
different formats and you want
to work with only one of those
formats at a time. Raster dataset
files often have a well-known
extension describing the format
of the data they contain—for
example, .jpg. If a raster dataset
is in a format supported by
ArcCatalog but its file extension
doesn’t appear in the Raster
tab’s list, it won’t appear in the
Catalog; for example, only files
with the extension .tif are
recognized as TIFF images by
default and not .tiff files. You
can customize the list of file
extensions that are associated
with a raster dataset format; if
you add .tiff to the list of
extensions for TIFF images,
they will appear in ArcCatalog
as raster datasets. u
Displaying all raster
formats
1. Click the Tools menu and
click Options.
2. Click the Raster tab.
3. Click the General tab.
4. Click File Formats.
5. Click Search all files to find
valid raster formats.
6. Click OK, click OK.
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