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Saving Raster with ffs uses lots of disk space, any compression possible

  • March 3, 2017
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mhab
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I see that the frs files created when saving Raster to ffs consume a lot of space. e.g. a 2Mb Tiff file with 10000x10000px results in 400Mb of frs.

I tried different compression settings for ffs, but this doesn't seem to influence frs handling.

I really would need to keep the frs smaller and wonder if there is any existing or planned possibilty for this.

Thanks

Michael

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Very good observation. We've not been asked this in the past but you are correct -- FRS files are NOT compressed nor is there an option to do so. Would you mind suggesting this as an idea https://knowledge.safe.com/content/idea/post.html?space=155 -- I can see this being a very useful thing for us to do.

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  • March 5, 2017

Very good observation. We've not been asked this in the past but you are correct -- FRS files are NOT compressed nor is there an option to do so. Would you mind suggesting this as an idea https://knowledge.safe.com/content/idea/post.html?space=155 -- I can see this being a very useful thing for us to do.


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  • March 13, 2017

Very good observation. We've not been asked this in the past but you are correct -- FRS files are NOT compressed nor is there an option to do so. Would you mind suggesting this as an idea https://knowledge.safe.com/content/idea/post.html?space=155 -- I can see this being a very useful thing for us to do.

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see: https://knowledge.safe.com/idea/41204/compression-for-raster-frs-files.html