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I am a researcher in population health at the University of East Anglia. I use GIS (ArcGIS) to process data with the aim of defining and categorising people's environments. I am learning how to use python for the automation of geoprocessing.


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accepted Why can't I access a table in a personal geodatabase (.mdb) with arcpy after installing 64-bit geoprocessing?
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comment Why can't I access a table in a personal geodatabase (.mdb) with arcpy after installing 64-bit geoprocessing?
So, the script is working. in addition to installing SP1, I also installed the new 64-bit geoprocessing thing - this throws up the error, but if I run it in the old 32-bit way it runs fine. So, can I use my .mdb files with 64-bit processing? if so, how?
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comment Why can't I access a table in a personal geodatabase (.mdb) with arcpy after installing 64-bit geoprocessing?
I tried the script again after turning my computer on this morning (before opening anything else), and the same error was returned. If I use arcpy.Exists it returns true for the database, but false for the table. Presumably a lock file would be on the .mdb rather than the table within it? there doesn't seem to be one.
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accepted What are key things to test in ArcMap 10.1, service pack 1?
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comment What are key things to test in ArcMap 10.1, service pack 1?
This answer and comment have made me think about the type of information I should be collecting from our users. I don't currently have details of specific issues users have had, so my main concern was that installation of the SP might have unintended consequences (is that likely?). I ran through a few basic geoprocessing commands, ran a couple of python scripts using shps and gdbs, and used Spatial Ecology's GME, as these are the sorts of things people seem to do here.
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comment overlay county shapefiles for 2 different years
If you run the union as specified above, all the attributes from both the input files should be maintained in the output file. If you want your final values to be a % of the 1880 areas, then make sure your 1880 shapefile contains an area attribute (e.g. Area1880). you can the calculate the % in the same way - in the union file Area% = (AreaUni/Area1880)*100. If that's not working you could post exactly what fields each of your input shapefiles have, and what you end up with in your output. You shouldn't have to join in any additional information after the union to get the result you want.
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