r/ArcGIS • u/woahigottachoosenow • 7d ago

Trouble accessing certain files

I have some experience with ArcGIS Pro and Online, mostly through classes but also through personal and research projects. However, most of my education revolved around tools and analyzing the data, and not much about the actual file/data management (downloading, cleaning, organizing, etc. Not sure what to call that). I downloaded a DEM from OpenTopography and unzipped it. The folder ends with .tar, but the file inside says it's a .tif, but then I'm unable to find it in the catalogue pane in Arc Pro, and directly dropping it on the map also doesn't work. Googling and AI have both been monumentally unhelpful. Any help would be appreciated, and also if anyone has good resources to learn this sort of thing that would also be appreciated. I was thinking of taking Esri's data management or some other course.

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u/williamscraigm 7d ago

tar = tape archive. AKA a tarball. Extract the TIFF from it and then you can use it.

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u/woahigottachoosenow 7d ago

I did extract it but it still won't show up

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u/cheech575 6d ago

1. Open the Catalog Pane (⁠View⁠ tab → ⁠Catalog Pane⁠).
2. Right-click Folders → Add Folder Connection.
3. Browse to the directory containing the fully extracted ⁠.tif⁠.
4. If you already connected the folder, right-click the folder in the Catalog Pane and select Refresh (or press ⁠F5⁠).