How to Share/Archive HEC-RAS Files (and how to clean up mapper afterwards)

Note: I have just started sending people this video if they need to send me RAS files.
RAS generates a lot of files with cryptic names and extensions. If you want to share a RAS plan but don't want to include all the big or extraneous files, it can be difficult to decide what to include.
But RAS has built in tools to create a "Share" package that includes the "minimum required files." RASMapper also includes tools that will clean up the extraneous "file stubs" in Mapper if you don't share all the geometries or results.
This video was funded by the Hydrology Hydraulics & Coastal Community of Practice Science and Technology Program (HH&C SET)

[@Minimegamind8272]

This is my favorite non-chihuahua or natural disaster video on youtube so I felt obligated to comment. life changing!

[@stanfordgibson]

And this is my favorite TH-cam comment 🙂

[@johnhunt71263]

very helpful video. Thanks Stanford!

[@kirkNJ]

Thanks! Helped me out.

[@btrobic]

well done sir!

[@altoroos]

Nice!

[@civilenggggg]

TBH Stanford, I like the new "hidden layers" but HEC should still make them accessible. For example, if I want to import reference lines via a shapefile, I can no longer do it. Instead, I have to draw a dummy reference line in the geometry data editor then open RAS Mapper and import via shapefile and then delete the dummy reference line

[@co11187]

I reorganized my parent folder and now HEC-RAS is unable to find files such as my terrain and mannings n. How can I point the project to those without creating a new copy?

[@stanfordgibson]

Yeah, that can happen. Go into mapper and remove them from the tree, than re-add them from the new location

[@jonathanproano5035]

someone knows about this error? HDF5-DIAG: Error detected in HDF5 (1.10.6) thread 10344:
#000: D:\build\HDF5\1.10.6\hdf5-1.10.6\src\H5F.c line 444 in H5Fcreate(): unable to create file
major: File accessibilty
minor: Unable to open file
#001: D:\build\HDF5\1.10.6\hdf5-1.10.6\src\H5Fint.c line 1509 in H5F_open(): unable to open file: time = Fri Jul 26 13:34:22 2024
, name = 'C:\Users\Jonathan Proaño\AppData\Local\Temp\76d7fabd-71ac-4f5e-b4e4-097452e2a832.h5', tent_flags = 13
major: File accessibilty
minor: Unable to open file
#002: D:\build\HDF5\1.10.6\hdf5-1.10.6\src\H5FD.c line 734 in H5FD_open(): open failed
major: Virtual File Layer
minor: Unable to initialize object
#003: D:\build\HDF5\1.10.6\hdf5-1.10.6\src\H5FDsec2.c line 346 in H5FD_sec2_open(): unable to open file: name = 'C:\Users\Jonathan Proaño\AppData\Local\Temp\76d7fabd-71ac-4f5e-b4e4-097452e2a832.h5', errno = 2, error message = 'No such file or directory', flags = 13, o_flags = 302
major: File accessibilty
minor: Unable to open file