I am attaching a SSAS database that I have just moved to a different drive following the below link:
Attach and Detach Analysis Services Databases
First I had to grant permissions on the new drive to the ssas services account:
Second when I attach the database I get the following error:
TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio
Errors in the metadata manager. The operation cannot be executed since
the database folder '\?\F:\SSAS\Data\Boden BI DEV 9_02.0.db' for the
database with the name of 'Boden BI DEV 9_02', ID of 'Boden BI DEV
9_02' already exists. (Microsoft.AnalysisServices)
As you can see on the picture below
It says the database already exist, but I have detached it from the engine, as you can see on the picture below.
Best Answer
I found what the problem was. I had not deleted the database from its original location, after I detached it.
I copied the database to the new drive, which on my case is T:.
After I deleted the database from its original location, in my case F:\ssas\data, then I could attach the database from T:.
After attached, I checked on the F:\ssas\data folder and SSAS had created the following structure there, see below.