idea Improve messages returned by compact/compress tools in ArcGIS Pro in ArcGIS Pro Ideas

Improve messages returned by compact/compress tools in ArcGIS Pro

DuncanHornby — Fri, 23 Feb 2018 15:35:07 GMT

In ArcGIS Pro compaction or compression of geodatabases are run through the geo-processing tools. In ArcGIS Pro you cannot evaluate the performance of these tools, i.e. you can't review the reduction in database size as you can in ArcCatalog as you can add a size column (another good reason to ensure ArcCatalog is not retired?).

I have found no way of displaying the geodatabase size in ArcGIS Pro.

It would be good and a fairly simple improvement to the existing geo-processing tools to report a before and after geodatabase size. Currently the tools only report if they have succeeded or failed.

Re: Improve messages returned by compact/compress tools in ArcGIS Pro

MichaelVolz — Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:34:14 GMT

What type of geodatabase are you trying to evaluate?

Re: Improve messages returned by compact/compress tools in ArcGIS Pro

DuncanHornby — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 16:12:08 GMT

@MichaelVolz - File Geodatabases

Re: Improve messages returned by compact/compress tools in ArcGIS Pro - Status changed to: In Product Plan

SSWoodward — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 21:35:24 GMT

Re: Improve messages returned by compact/compress tools in ArcGIS Pro - Status changed to: Implemented

SSWoodward — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 17:40:02 GMT

Thanks to everyone who participated in this conversation!

In the newly released ArcGIS Pro 3.2, users are able to view the size of file based geodatabases, like file geodatabase and mobile geodatabase, in the Catalog View. This allows users to evaluate the difference in size of their gdbs before and after a compress operation.

For more about what's new from the geodatabase team, check out our what's new in 3.2 post.

What's new in 3.2 from geodatabase

For a bigger picture view, check out our general what's new in ArcGIS Pro 3.2

What's new in 3.2 - ArcGIS Pro