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arcpy "The table name is invalid"

I wrote a script that, ideally, loads raw .las (LiDAR data) files into a geodatabase, then creates a terrain from the multipoint files that are created. When I run the script though I get: ...
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What causes ERROR 000210: Cannot create output in_memory\AND from ArcPy?

The ArcGIS for Desktop "ERROR 000210: Cannot create output" has been reported on this site a number of times but an in_memory workspace seems to have been implicated only once: ERROR 000210: Cannot ...
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Intermediate Data in Python Code

Is there a way to incorporate intermediate data (so that I do not have to select an output save location) in a python script that I turned into a tool? import arcpy, os from arcpy import env env....
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Error when exporting to new folder using ArcPy

I want to create a backup copy of a feature class and place it in a new folder with today's date written on the folder name. I also need to output file to be a shapefile. The script below does ...
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Random errors with arcpy. Including "ERROR 000210: Cannot create output"

I have a script processing several geodatabases and, at the end, creating some shapefiles. During this process, an intemediary (local) GDB is created and some selected datasets/feature classes are ...
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ArcGIS Exporting (ALL) layers from Table of Contents

I'm trying to export ALL layers from the table of contents from a map document but I get the following error: Runtime error Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 14, in File "c:\...
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Error arcpy copy feature management problem when making join to shapefile

I am trying to join a csv file to a shapefile based on an ID field that keeps giving me this error: ExecuteError: ERROR 000210: Cannot create output C:\Users\geo.gdb\2010reg Failed to execute (...
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Arcpy Traceback error 000210: Cannot create output

I have been given the task of taking a script that was made by someone who has left and altering where it saves the files. This is originally a simple folder system but we are moving over to file ...
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Batch clip feature class to preserve area field

I have a large land cover map in a geodatabase, that I want to batch clip by defined catchments (about 63 polygons). The output files are named based on a field in the "clipper" (sys.argv[2]) called ...
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ERROR 000210 Cannot create output 'name' Failed to execute CopyFeatures

I'm learning ArcPy, when I run this code from Python on ArcMap it works. But it does not work from the separate Python shell. import arcpy from arcpy import env import os output_dir = "C:/Data" ...
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arcpy.CopyFeatures between file GDBs?

I'm trying to figure out why I can't copy a featureclass from one file GDB to another. I can copy the featureclass to within the source GDB. There's no name conflict in the target GDB. I don't think I'...
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ArcPy not executing CopyFeatures_management to write feature class to ArcSDE geodatabase [closed]

I have some problems with my Python script. The script gets an JSON with different information about images. The information includes general information about images and also the gps position of them....
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Why is my ArcPy script deleting its workspace?

I wrote an ArcMap script to go through a feature layer, identify unique values in a given field, and output a feature class from each unique value to its own feature class or shapefile. As an exercise,...
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Select by Location and extract features using arcpy

So I'm fairly new to arcpy and have been trying to figure out a relatively simple select by location/extract features to new layer automation in ArcMap. What I am trying to do is select features from ...
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Is there a maximum number of feature classes for an Esri File GeoDatabase?

Is there a maximum number of feature classes for an Esri File GeoDatabase ? I'm running a script that creates feature classes, however, after around 1000 I receive a schema lock error: ERROR 000210: ...
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What is the proper syntax to use for the TableSelect_analysis to deselect everything?

I can use the code: for lyr in arcpy.mapping.ListLayers(dataframe): arcpy.SelectLayerByAttribute_management(lyr, "CLEAR_SELECTION") to deselect features in each layer in my map. However, the ...
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Feature to polygon in multiple folders

I have a few hundred folders, each with a set of shapefiles that are identical across folders (ie each folder has a 'lot.shp'). They are all supposed to be polygon features, but unfortunately many ...
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Exceptions for invalid files/ filenames that already exist in database

The script below is functional, but it runs into issues if it comes across duplicate files (even when overwriteOutput=True) and corrupt shapefiles when running feature to feature. Are there ...
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Copying features to dataset in loop gives ERROR 000210 from ArcPy?

I'm trying to write script, that looks at the feature classes in a geodatabase and depending on what the feature class ends with, it creates a new dataset in the geodatabase and copies the file into ...
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Trying to export table from mxd using arcpy Copy Rows but get cannot create output error?

I am trying to export a table from a mxd using arcpy. I need a comma delimited .txt file. I believe the CopyRows_management function should work, however I always get a cannot create output error ...
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Copy Features giving ERROR 000210: Cannot create output in ArcPy?

I have an issue where I'm trying to save separate feature classes for each route in an already solved closest facility problem, and one seemingly arbitrary route won't save. I tried to look at the ...
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arcpy.Project_management gives ERROR 000210?

I want to use arcpy.Project_management to project my data. I have.... arcpy.env.workspace = scratchGDB fcList = arcpy.ListFeatureClasses() for fc in fcList: print fc >>> lease90 ...
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Getting ArcPy Error 00354 [closed]

Just to get the obvious out of the way, I am very new to python and arcpy. I know almost nothing. That being said, I've inherited a script that is run once a year and I'm now the only one responsible ...
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Python script with forward slash in list causing errors?

Here is my script: import arcpy # set environment, workspace, and output location arcpy.env.overwriteOutput = 1 arcpy.env.workspace = r"Database Connections\Transportation.sde" output_loc = r"C:\...
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Using ArcPy to Generate Near Table in memory

I have a point SHP in WGS84 (EPSG 4326) and I am trying to tabulate the distances to the nearest point in meters. I need to do the analysis using ArcPy, but I want to get the results in a Pandas ...
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Projecting features to Enterprise Geodatabase in Oracle gives ERROR 000210: Cannot create output

I am trying to project features from a geodatabase and write into an enterprise geodatabase connection. I have permissions to create data and the name I am using also works, but I keep getting error: ...
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ArcGIS Python TableSelect_analysis ERROR 000210: Cannot create output

I have a very strange issue: I try to execute the following script which uses TableSelect_analysis and construct as outputs the corresponding tables from another table depending on a specific ...
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Running Select results in error 000210

I'm trying to run SELECT in order to extract specific features under "CLASS_NAME", but continue getting "ERROR 000210: Cannot create output". I've searched though other questions with the same ...
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Multiprocessing ERROR 000210 Cannot create output 'name' Failed to execute Intersect

I am trying to use multiprocessing to process intersects between polygons and points for a list of states and territories (the data sets for the points are large, so my hope was that the ...
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Why will arcpy.Project_management not create output?

I have 2 feature datasets in a .gdb (CNMS_Inventory and CNMS_Inventory_Albers). I set the dataset for CNMS_Inventory to 4269(NAD83) when I created it and it contains a feature class called ...
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Naming exported features from attribute information?

I am new to Python and in the process of learning. As a self test I am trying to export all of the municipalities of a single county feature layer as their own feature layers. I am trying to name each ...
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My program won't accept my output file path

Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Wing IDE 101 4.1\src\debug\tserver_sandbox.py", line 21, in File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Wing IDE 101 4.1\src\debug\tserver_sandbox....
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Arcpy Freezing on Field Calculation

I am trying to populate a grid with the number of features in each grid cell. I've gotten this script to work with a subset of the data, but when I try to run it on the full (52,000+) cell feature ...
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Spatial Join Loop gives ExecuteError: ERROR 000210: Cannot create output?

I have a series of buffer polygons that I need to perform a spatial join on to get overall counts within the buffers. I can do this by copy and pasting the spatial join script over and over and just ...
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ArcPy function works in ArcMap Python window but not from standalone script?

So I think I'm running into a data/schema lock issue, but I have no idea how to tell, or how to fix it for that matter. Here's the setup: I have this chain of gp functions: #extract elevations to ...
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Resolve Error 000210 when using Scratch Workspace?

Now I'm trying to make Python script to resolve some problem. I need too place all out features in Scratch Workspace (Later this script will be used in web GIS and intermediate features mustn't be ...
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In Arcpy, Erase function error: "XML being loaded could not be parsed"

A error in my previously-smooth-running arcpy script has me confounded. The error occurs where the script selects individual features in two different feature classes, and then performs an Erase ...
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TableToTable_conversion using PostgreSQL and ArcPy

Currently, I am trying to convert a geodb to a table in my PostgreSQL db with arcpy as such. I've tried both with the parcels table being created and the parcels table not being created arcpy....
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Creating new feature class in ArcPy gives error 000210? [closed]

I am trying to create a new attribute table and I keep getting the same error. import os import arcpy import math folderpath = 'C:\Users\Michaelf\Desktop\GEOG M173' arcpy.env.workspace = folderpath ...
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Using arcpy.CopyFeatures_management results in a 000210 using a database connection that does not contain saved credentials [closed]

Currently have a problem running CopyFeatures_management in ESRI's ArcGIS 10.1 The following shows two Enterprise Geodatabase connection files. One includes the username and password and the other ...
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ArcGIS 000210 error copy to feature class [duplicate]

I have a script tool that: Creates a feature dataset within a file geodatabase Performs a Select by Attributes on a cadastral layer Copies the selected polygons into the feature dataset. The copied ...
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Converting multiple CSV automatically to shapefile using ArcPy?

I have more than 300 CSV files. Every CSV file contains different Longitude, Latitude and other parameters (e.g. Date, Longitude, Latitude, Elevation, Max Temperature, Min Temperature, Precipitation, ...
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ArcPy: Select_Analysis Invalid Characters

The following script produces the ERROR 000210: Cannot create output... .shp and ERROR 000354: The name containts invalic characters Failed to execute (Select.). The line with arcpy.Select_analysis ...
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Save/download ArcGIS Online feature layer as shapefile using Python script

I would like to go through my feature layers in my ArcGIS Online account and download/save the feature layers as shapefiles to my computer. I've tried this tool and also this and others but with no ...
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ArcPy Is error 000210 occuring due to permissions

I have a script that worked fine a month ago but I suspect due to some reconfiguring of my citrix profile by IT as part of a maintennance drill they changed something that affects my ability to create ...
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Debugging MinimumBoundingGeometry_management() gives ERROR 000210?

I created a script to envolve points with polygons using the same value or ID. The main tool was the "Minimum Bounding Geometry", and so far my script is working good, but to convert to toolbox script ...
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Clipping Features in list creates error

I need to clip all of the feature classes in the .gdb to a layer then add the results to a results dataset. However it returns the error. Error 000210:Cannot create output C:...gdb\FC_Results\...
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Buffer ring problem with uses of make feature layer

Im trying to create a buffer ring shape but gets me the error 210: arcgisscripting.ExecuteError: ERROR 000210: Cannot create output C:\Trabajo Carto\TempPrograma\"capa de Ringbuff70".shp Failed ...
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arcpy.Clip_analysis() Automatically Affixing .shp.shp to Target Feature Class Name?

I created a Python script that was previously working fine, but is now giving me an error when I try to use the arcpy.Clip_analysis() function in arcmaps 10.2.1. I am not adding a filetype extnsion ...
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ERROR 000210: Cannot create output in_memory\SLR_Union.shp and ERROR 000354: The name contains invalid characters

I'm receiving the following errors: Traceback (most recent call last): File "f:\tst_root\GIS_WORKSPACE\sprice\PatchSize_SSG_Methods_Rework\SSG\Python\SSG_Analysis_Part1_BlockListClip.py", ...
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