topic how to ftp a file geodatabase in Developers Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/developers-questions/how-to-ftp-a-file-geodatabase/m-p/518641#M3525 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello everyone,</P><P></P><P>How do you ftp a file geodatabase?</P><P></P><P>Do I need to zip it?</P><P></P><P></P><P>Thanks</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 21 Jul 2015 13:45:45 GMT JoseSanchez 2015-07-21T13:45:45Z how to ftp a file geodatabase https://community.esri.com/t5/developers-questions/how-to-ftp-a-file-geodatabase/m-p/518641#M3525 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello everyone,</P><P></P><P>How do you ftp a file geodatabase?</P><P></P><P>Do I need to zip it?</P><P></P><P></P><P>Thanks</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 21 Jul 2015 13:45:45 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/developers-questions/how-to-ftp-a-file-geodatabase/m-p/518641#M3525 JoseSanchez 2015-07-21T13:45:45Z Re: how to ftp a file geodatabase https://community.esri.com/t5/developers-questions/how-to-ftp-a-file-geodatabase/m-p/518642#M3526 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>If you want to share it via an ftp, you could zip the geodatabase folder to reduce size.</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 21 Jul 2015 13:50:52 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/developers-questions/how-to-ftp-a-file-geodatabase/m-p/518642#M3526 TimWitt2 2015-07-21T13:50:52Z Re: how to ftp a file geodatabase https://community.esri.com/t5/developers-questions/how-to-ftp-a-file-geodatabase/m-p/518643#M3527 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Also useful to reduce size - 7-Zip:</P><P></P><P><A href="http://www.7-zip.org/" title="http://www.7-zip.org/">http://www.7-zip.org/</A></P><BLOCKQUOTE><TABLE border="1"><TBODY><TR><TD><P><SPAN style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Usually, </SPAN><STRONG style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">7-Zip</STRONG><SPAN style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"> compresses to 7z format 30-70% better than to zip format. And </SPAN><STRONG style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">7-Zip</STRONG><SPAN style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"> compresses to zip format 2-10% better than most of other zip compatible programs.</SPAN></P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML> Tue, 21 Jul 2015 15:10:57 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/developers-questions/how-to-ftp-a-file-geodatabase/m-p/518643#M3527 ChrisSmith7 2015-07-21T15:10:57Z