[Qgis-user] Convert huge shapefile to small size

[bernd.vogelgesang at gmx.de]

so, maybe you should really drop all unneccessary fields or maybe all but an id field, and then create a relation to the original database, but in any case I would convert that stuff away from ESRI-Shape to Geopackage beforehand, as is it is a pita.

On 28.07.22 13:52, krishna Ayyala <ayyalakrishna at gmail.com> wrote:
> dbf file itself is 5.1GB. Rest all other files are less than 500MB. It
> is the number of records which is huge. It has about 117,2100 points.
>
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2022 at 12:02 AM Bernd Vogelgesang via Qgis-user
> <qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org <mailto:qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org>> wrote:
>
>     how big is the dbf file of that shape? Maybe you can also drop some
>     attributes.
>
>     Am 28.07.22 um 03:46 schrieb krishna Ayyala via Qgis-user:
>      > Hello,
>      > I have a shapefile of 5GB in size. Is it possible to convert this
>      > shapefile to a smaller size file? It can be any format, not
>      > necessarily a shapefile. But, preferably a vector format. I tried to
>      > convert it into tiles, but that didn't work as it was losing the
>      > resolution. I am looking to convert this 5GB size file to about
>     500MB.
>      >
>      > Regards.
>      >
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