Hello,

I have not posted for a long time. I have been using FME Workbench 2022.2 and just now upgraded to FME Workbench 2025.1.  What I have noticed is:

In 2022.2 → Generate Workspace → Convert multiple files in any format into ESRI Shape format. I had no issues doing this.

In 2025.1 → Generate Workspace → Convert multiple files in any format into ESRI Shape format.  I get an error: “Unable to perform any licensing related tasks. Please check your Esri ArcGIS Compatibility workspace parameter, found in Navigator -> Workspace Parameters -> Spatial. This 64-bit version of FME requires ArcGIS Desktop along with 64-bit Background Geoprocessing; ArcGIS Pro; or ArcGIS Enterprise. Refer to this this article http://fme.ly/qua for more details”

I do not have ESRI products installed on my server. (I never have needed them in past versions.)

Also to note, I CAN convert one dataset (format doesn’t matter just other than Shape file) into an ESRI Shape file format successfully. It seems as though doing “multiple files at a time” is potentially the issue? 

Any help is greatly appreciated in understanding if this is a limitation due to not having ESRI product(s) or just a limitation due to the upgrade to 2025.1?