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Shapefile writer stops with no warnings or errros

  • January 29, 2025
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sarah.h.a
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Hi all,

I am working on a translation in FME, and I’m encountering an issue where my data is being fanned out to multiple locations. However, when FME tries to write the shapefiles to the first file location, the translation stops without any specific warnings or error messages, other than the general "Error running translation."

Interestingly, on FME Flow, the process behaves similarly. It doesn't throw any errors, but the translation simply stops after attempting to write to the first location, as if it's hanging or failing silently.

I’ve tried to troubleshoot by checking the file locations and permissions, but the issue persists. I would appreciate any guidance or suggestions on what might be causing this or steps I can take to diagnose it further.

Thanks in advance for any help :)

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nielsgerrits
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Does it work in desktop and not on server? Or does it also not work on desktop?

If yes, I would try to test with 1 feature (Sampler) and then check what the exact file location is the FeatureWriter is trying to save it.

If no, I have seen some weird behaviour when publishing to server, where a relative path in desktop translated to a relative path in server which did not work out well, so that might be something. But hard to say withoud workbench / data.


sarah.h.a
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  • January 29, 2025

It doesn’t work in Form or Flow :(.


nielsgerrits
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Can you try with a new simple workspace if you are able to write a sample shape file on the location you try to write?


sarah.h.a
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  • January 29, 2025

I extracted the other shape files which have the same fan out settings to the same folders and no issues there.The ‘Unmetered_Less1000’ is the one that keeps failing.

 

 


DanAtSafe
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  • January 29, 2025

Hi ​@sarah.h.a If you see this problem with FME 2024.2 then please submit a case via https://support.safe.com/hc/en-us/p/Support Thanks!


sarah.h.a
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  • February 3, 2025

Hi Dan, thanks for this, the FME version I am using is 2023.0. 


jdh
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  • February 5, 2025

I’ve experienced shapefile writing issues when the reader is shapefile and the writer the deprecated esri shape.
It produces the same Error running translation message without any other details.


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