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I am on Form 20240521, build 24219 on Windows 10 and I am getting the error stated in the title.

 

Following the discussion in 

I checked my path. FME is in the path and the path currently has a length of 1652 characters.

The plugin directory exists and there are 62 directories and 400 files inside…


The error warning shows up several times, two times in relation to two different FeatureReaders (version 14) .

FeatureReader 1:

  • format: shapefile
  • error: Error prepending 'C:\Program Files\FME_23781\plugins' to path environment variable.

FeatureReader 2:

  • format: geopackage
  • error: Error prepending 'C:\Program Files\FME_23781\plugins\gdal' to path environment variable.

The next time the error shows up is in relation to a FeatureWriter:

  • format: Esri Geodatabase (File Geodb)
  • error: Error prepending 'C:\Program Files\FME_23781\plugins\..' to path environment variable.

Any suggestion on how to deal with this, apart from what was mentioned in then earlier thread?

Hello @tb09114, thanks for posting! It may be helpful if you can share a complete logfile? Also, are you able to try following this article to enable long file path support on Windows and then try re-running the workspace? Let me know if this helps resolve the issue, or if it persists. Happy to help, Kailin.

Hi @kailinatsafe I tried to follow the posting from Liz before, but unfortunately I cannot access the group policies… our IT does not let me. 😒

Please find the log file attached.

Bests Thomas

Hello @tb09114, no worries on the setting, I am not confident it would help much in this case anyways! A few more thoughts: 

  • Can you try running the following in CMD dir "C:\Program Files\FME_23781\plugins", are the directories listed successfully? 
  • Please enable log_debug in Tools > FME Options > Translation > Log Settings, run the workspace and share a complete logfile here.

Sometimes log_debug mode can give us extra clues to what is going wrong in the workspace. Perhaps you could also consider sharing your PATH env variable here so we can ensure the character count is not exceeding the limit? Best, Kailin.

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