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How to Enable Deprecated FDO Formats

Dave Campanas
Dave Campanas
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Introduction

In 2022, Safe deprecated the following reader/writers that were dependent on the Autodesk FDO components, since these were no longer being maintained and could not be relied upon to meet modern security standards:

  • Autodesk IMX (FDO)
  • SQLite Spatial (FDO)
  • Autodesk MapGuide Enterprise SDF
  • Autodesk MapGuide SDF

However, in order to maintain backward compatibility with older workspaces, these readers/writers are still included with FME, and will function if the user chooses to install the required FDO components themselves. By doing so, the user assumes all risk associated with these components.

 

Download FDO Components

The FDO components for Windows can be downloaded from the following links:

Common FDO Component:

https://download.osgeo.org/fdo/4.0.0/release/adsk/M040/binaries/win64/fdo-win64-4.0.0_4001.tar.gz

Required for SQLite and IMX:

https://download.osgeo.org/fdo/4.0.0/release/adsk/M040/binaries/win64/fdosqlite-win64-4.0.0_4001.tar.gz

Required for MapGuide:

https://download.osgeo.org/fdo/4.0.0/release/adsk/M040/binaries/win64/fdosdf-win64-4.0.0_4001.tar.gz

 

To add these components to FME:

  1. Locate your FME installation folder (ie. C:\Program Files\FME), then navigate into the plugins folder
  2. Create a new folder within plugins named fdo, if it does not already exist
  3. Unzip the zip files listed above into the fdo folder

Once the components have been added to FME, older workspace containing the deprecated reader/writers will function as before.

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