topic Why does the file size of a feature class in an enterprise geodatabase increases when it is copied to a file geodatabase? in Data Management Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/why-does-the-file-size-of-a-feature-class-in-an/m-p/626323#M35407 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I was wondering and hoping to get some inputs as to why the file size change when copied from an egdb to fgdb. The file that i copied has 11gb from the egdb but after copying to fgdb it became 60gb. The increase is very significant considering i just copied the file using a copy/paste method. Is there any other way of copying a file without increasing the file size?</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 03 Jan 2019 14:04:43 GMT JessiecarEsguerra 2019-01-03T14:04:43Z Why does the file size of a feature class in an enterprise geodatabase increases when it is copied to a file geodatabase? https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/why-does-the-file-size-of-a-feature-class-in-an/m-p/626323#M35407 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I was wondering and hoping to get some inputs as to why the file size change when copied from an egdb to fgdb. The file that i copied has 11gb from the egdb but after copying to fgdb it became 60gb. The increase is very significant considering i just copied the file using a copy/paste method. Is there any other way of copying a file without increasing the file size?</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 03 Jan 2019 14:04:43 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/why-does-the-file-size-of-a-feature-class-in-an/m-p/626323#M35407 JessiecarEsguerra 2019-01-03T14:04:43Z