Hi all,
I am getting Geodatabase Error (-2147024893): The system cannot find the path specified, when trying to fanout a dataset and writers are drop and create. It works for some areas but not others. Could be path length issues? Any ideas?
Directory: "$(FME_MF_DIR)..\\_FME Outputs"
Fanout Expression: "@Value(Area_Ref) @Value(Area_Name)\\@Value(Area_Ref) @Value(Area_Name) Outputs.gdb"
(as per clients request i cannot change this folder structure)
Thanks!
How long (number of characters) are the longest path names?
How long (number of characters) are the longest path names?
Around 240 including the table name
Around 240 including the table name
Should be OK as long as you don't go above 260 characters, where you may hit some limitations depending on your OS etc.
Do you have a fanout on the feature class name as well? If yes, what is the max length there?
Around 240 including the table name
No fanout on feature class name they are set...but are as long as 33 characters so it seems this could be the issue perhaps?
Around 240 including the table name
Feature class names can be up to 160 characters: https://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/latest/manage-data/administer-file-gdbs/file-geodatabase-size-and-name-limits.htm
But do look out for invalid names in the feature classes.
In my experience, if the filepath plus featureclass names are too long, the featureclasses get created but then error when trying to populate them. Is this what you are seeing?
Around 240 including the table name
Its strange as it does write the feature classes fine for some of the 'Areas' run in the fanout - only seems to error on some seemingly randomly, and writes successfully when changing the path directory to local.