How to determine if a FeatureClass is compressed in a File GeoDatabase?

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01-25-2019 07:58 AM
DuncanHornby
MVP Notable Contributor

Hopefully a nice simple question? I've just upgraded to ArcGIS Pro 2.3 and compressed some FeatureClasses in a FIle GeoDatabase. I was wondering  how can you tell they are compressed within the Pro environment? I could see no visual clue or when looking at the FeatureClass properties see any text stating it has been compressed.

Am I having a Friday "moment" and have simply missed some obvious indicator?

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MarisaClaggett
Occasional Contributor II

Hi duncan,

If you right click the feature class in Pro and go to Manage, there should be an option to uncompress or compress.  If only uncompress is an option, then the feature class is compressed.  However, I could not find any other visual indication in the geodatabase.  Hope that helps!

Marisa

DuncanHornby
MVP Notable Contributor

I was hoping I had missed some sort of visual clue rather than the need for right clicking on a featureclass and checking the state of the context menu. In ArcCatalog when you view the contents of a geodatabase, any compressed featureclass have the word compressed after them. It would be nice to see Pro do something similar.

DanPatterson_Retired
MVP Emeritus

Analogous to trying to run

Compress File Geodatabase Data—Data Management toolbox | ArcGIS Desktop 

and see if the fc shows up as a candidate in the list

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