{"id":188611,"date":"2012-04-18T21:05:33","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T21:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=188611"},"modified":"2018-12-18T11:04:54","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T19:04:54","slug":"how-do-you-delete-or-remove-raster-pyramids","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-desktop\/imagery\/how-do-you-delete-or-remove-raster-pyramids","title":{"rendered":"How do you delete or remove raster pyramids?"},"author":4061,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[23341,22931],"tags":[24321,73231,23011],"industry":[],"product":[36991],"class_list":["post-188611","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analytics","category-imagery","tag-geoprocessing","tag-pyramids","tag-raster","product-arcgis-desktop"],"acf":{"short_description":"Have you ever wanted to delete pyramids from your raster dataset?  Some might  delete their .RRD or .OVR file (which is not recommended).","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>Have you ever wanted to delete pyramids from your raster dataset?\u00a0 Some might\u00a0 delete their .RRD or .OVR file (which is not recommended).\u00a0 And of course if you are using an geodatabase raster dataset, that method will not be possible.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.esri.com\/esri\/arcgis\/files\/2012\/04\/dropPyr1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11079 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.esri.com\/esri\/arcgis\/files\/2012\/04\/dropPyr1.png\" alt=\"Raster properties showing pyramids have been created\" width=\"414\" height=\"361\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>So how do I delete my pyramids from my raster?<\/strong><br \/>\nIn order to remove your pyramids, you need to run the Build Pyramids geoprocessing tool with 0 levels built.<br \/>\n1) Open the Build Pyramids tool.<br \/>\n2) Choose the input raster dataset for which you would like to remove the pyramids<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.esri.com\/esri\/arcgis\/files\/2012\/04\/dropPyr2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11081\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.esri.com\/esri\/arcgis\/files\/2012\/04\/dropPyr2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"254\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n3) Click on the Environments button<br \/>\n4) Expand Raster Storage<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.esri.com\/esri\/arcgis\/files\/2012\/04\/dropPyr3b.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11084\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.esri.com\/esri\/arcgis\/files\/2012\/04\/dropPyr3b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"473\" height=\"362\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n5) For the Pyramid Levels parameter, type 0<br \/>\n6) Click OK on the Environment Setting<br \/>\n7) Click OK to run the Build Pyramids tool<\/p>\n<p>Check the Properties of your raster dataset, and make sure that the pyramids have been removed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.esri.com\/esri\/arcgis\/files\/2012\/04\/dropPyr4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11085\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.esri.com\/esri\/arcgis\/files\/2012\/04\/dropPyr4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"414\" height=\"359\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n"}],"authors":[{"ID":4061,"user_firstname":"Simon","user_lastname":"Woo","nickname":"Simon Woo","user_nicename":"simo3919","display_name":"Simon W","user_email":"swoo@esri.com","user_url":"","user_registered":"2018-03-02 00:15:40","user_description":"Simon is an Esri product engineer on the Raster team. 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