topic Re: Compressing a Geodatabase in Geodatabase Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/geodatabase-questions/compressing-a-geodatabase/m-p/870850#M6254 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>You may want to look into&nbsp;<A class="link-titled" href="http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/latest/manage-data/administer-file-gdbs/file-geodatabases-compressing-vs-compacting.htm" title="http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/latest/manage-data/administer-file-gdbs/file-geodatabases-compressing-vs-compacting.htm">File geodatabases: compress vs. compact—Help | ArcGIS Desktop</A>&nbsp; and see if that will help with your task.</P><P></P><P><A class="link-titled" href="http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/latest/manage-data/administer-file-gdbs/compact-file-and-personal-geodatabases.htm" title="http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/latest/manage-data/administer-file-gdbs/compact-file-and-personal-geodatabases.htm">Compact file and personal geodatabases—Help | ArcGIS Desktop</A>&nbsp;</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 04 Apr 2017 18:35:34 GMT George_Thompson 2017-04-04T18:35:34Z Compressing a Geodatabase https://community.esri.com/t5/geodatabase-questions/compressing-a-geodatabase/m-p/870847#M6251 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I have a GeoDatabse that has a raster catalog and many individual images. These file geodatabases run about 5-10GB. I need to trasnfer them to field offices. Is there a way I can compress them to a smaller size (winzip doesn't work) so I can try to send them over the network. My other option is loading portable hard drives and sending them to each office. Thanks</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 04 Apr 2017 18:08:46 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geodatabase-questions/compressing-a-geodatabase/m-p/870847#M6251 JohnWatermolen 2017-04-04T18:08:46Z Re: Compressing a Geodatabase https://community.esri.com/t5/geodatabase-questions/compressing-a-geodatabase/m-p/870848#M6252 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I use <STRONG>FTP</STRONG> to share heavy files/folders across the organization.</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 04 Apr 2017 18:19:30 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geodatabase-questions/compressing-a-geodatabase/m-p/870848#M6252 JayantaPoddar 2017-04-04T18:19:30Z Re: Compressing a Geodatabase https://community.esri.com/t5/geodatabase-questions/compressing-a-geodatabase/m-p/870849#M6253 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Thanks for the thoughts,&nbsp;but I believe FTP is not an option because of network security or internal network</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 04 Apr 2017 18:22:37 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geodatabase-questions/compressing-a-geodatabase/m-p/870849#M6253 JohnWatermolen 2017-04-04T18:22:37Z Re: Compressing a Geodatabase https://community.esri.com/t5/geodatabase-questions/compressing-a-geodatabase/m-p/870850#M6254 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>You may want to look into&nbsp;<A class="link-titled" href="http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/latest/manage-data/administer-file-gdbs/file-geodatabases-compressing-vs-compacting.htm" title="http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/latest/manage-data/administer-file-gdbs/file-geodatabases-compressing-vs-compacting.htm">File geodatabases: compress vs. compact—Help | ArcGIS Desktop</A>&nbsp; and see if that will help with your task.</P><P></P><P><A class="link-titled" href="http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/latest/manage-data/administer-file-gdbs/compact-file-and-personal-geodatabases.htm" title="http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/latest/manage-data/administer-file-gdbs/compact-file-and-personal-geodatabases.htm">Compact file and personal geodatabases—Help | ArcGIS Desktop</A>&nbsp;</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 04 Apr 2017 18:35:34 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geodatabase-questions/compressing-a-geodatabase/m-p/870850#M6254 George_Thompson 2017-04-04T18:35:34Z