# Can paraview 5.8 save a compressed cgns file?

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/can-paraview-5-8-save-a-compressed-cgns-file/5545
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [October 12, 2020, 1:51pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/can-paraview-5-8-save-a-compressed-cgns-file/5545 "2020-10-12T13:51:32Z")
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### Author: ![natsu\_mizu](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/natsu_mizu/32/1815_2.png) [@natsu\_mizu](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/natsu_mizu)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2020, 1:51pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/can-paraview-5-8-save-a-compressed-cgns-file/5545/1 "2020-10-12T13:51:32Z")

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Hi, I use paraview 5.8.0 to generate cgns file of some CFD results. It seems that the generated cgns file size is the same as the memory usage of the object inside paraview. Is there way to generate a compressed cgns file?

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### Author: ![cory.quammen](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/cory.quammen/32/11193_2.png) [@cory.quammen](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/cory.quammen)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2020, 2:06pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/can-paraview-5-8-save-a-compressed-cgns-file/5545/2 "2020-10-12T14:06:59Z")

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Welcome to ParaView @natsu_mizu! I am not aware of support for saving compressed CGNS files in ParaView

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### Author: ![natsu\_mizu](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/natsu_mizu/32/1815_2.png) [@natsu\_mizu](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/natsu_mizu)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2020, 8:58pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/can-paraview-5-8-save-a-compressed-cgns-file/5545/3 "2020-10-12T20:58:17Z")

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Thank you for make it clear.