By Activating the Cloud Datastore service under your project, you are actually setting up Datastore:
Note <https://cloud.google.com/datastore/docs/activate>: During the activation process, you will create a GCP *project ID* for your project. This ID identifies the Cloud Datastore storage used for your project. I would suggest to follow the steps of the 'automatic upgrade to Cloud Firestore', as mentioned by Jordan. This is the right steps to convert from Cloud Datastore to Cloud Firestore. Currently, it's the only method to enable Cloud Firestore for a project where Cloud Datastore was enabled. On Tuesday, August 28, 2018 at 4:49:24 AM UTC-4, Dennis Yurkevich wrote: > Thank you Jordan, but the question remains - if I activated Cloud > Datastore but have never used the APIs, can I shut it down and create a > Firestore in that same project? > > On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 7:49 PM, 'Jordan (Cloud Platform Support)' via > Google App Engine <[email protected]> wrote: > >> You can find all of the answers to your questions in the Automatic >> Upgrade to Cloud Firestore >> <https://cloud.google.com/datastore/docs/upgrade-to-firestore> documentation >> and provided video >> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=13&v=SYG-BgXoJFQ>. As noted >> in blue on that page: "You cannot manually upgrade an existing Cloud >> Datastore database to Cloud Firestore in Datastore mode.". This will be >> done automatically for you once Firestore is out of Beta. >> >> - If you are looking to use native Cloud Firestore (by following the Get >> started with Cloud Firestore >> <https://firebase.google.com/docs/firestore/quickstart> steps), you are >> required to create a new project that does not have a Cloud Datastore >> created. This is because Cloud Datastore and native Cloud Firestore are not >> compatible, since Cloud Firestore is the next generation of Cloud >> Datastore. They therefore cannot exists together in the same project, and >> you can only use one or the other. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Google App Engine" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/a73894f6-5039-405f-abb6-0a1f90cbd75d%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/a73894f6-5039-405f-abb6-0a1f90cbd75d%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/2d220465-68af-48b9-9626-59e8fa27ae93%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
