topic Re: Compress File Geodatabase Crashes in Geoprocessing Questions

Compress File Geodatabase Crashes

TimDine — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 12:29:48 GMT

I extract some data to a file geodatabase (v9.3) from a SDE Geodatabase (Oracle 11g / 10.1). The extract works fine. I compress the geodatabase using either ArcCatalog or Python. Either option crashes the software. In Python it crashes with "Exit code: -336589910" and crashes python.exe. It doesn't matter that the compress tool is in a try block. In ArcCatalog the background geoprocessor process crashes.

Has anyone else seen this behavior. I am running ArcGIS Desktop 10.1 SP1. The process is built on a previous one that worked fine with desktop 10.0 / File Geodatabase 9.3 / SDE Geodatabase (Oracle 11g / 9.3.1).

Re: Compress File Geodatabase Crashes

KevinHibma — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 17:01:53 GMT

I just did a quick search of logged issues for compress.
I only found one that talked about uncompressing a fgdb crashing with a specific dataset.
Since it sounds like you can consistently reproduce the issue, I'd suggest logging a support call and hopefully you can share your data. My guess is its something specific with your data and we'd need to get that to identify the exact problem.

Re: Compress File Geodatabase Crashes

GusMartinka — Wed, 20 Nov 2013 20:18:03 GMT

I am seeing this behavior as well. I have a very large file geodatabase, 20gb uncompressed. I received this fgdb compressed(3gb) so I know it can be compressed. I uncompressed it to add attribute indexes which was not working when it was compressed. After adding the indexes ArcCatalog crashes everytime I try to compress the gdb. Compact works fine but compress fails after about 15 seconds. I am on ArcGIS 10.1 SP1 on Win7 64 bit.