To control the output shapefile name and for additional conversion options, see the Export Features tool. For example, if the input is C:\base.gdb\rivers, the output shapefile will be named rivers.shp. The name of the output shapefile will be the name of the input feature class. They do not support capabilities found in geodatabases such as Names longer than 10 characters, and they cannot store both a date Support for Unicode character strings, they do not allow field For example, shapefile attributesĬannot store null values, they round up numbers, they have poor
Shapefiles have many limitations compared to feature classes in a geodatabase.
