Questions tagged [error-999999]

"Error 999999: Error executing function" - a generic error in Esri ArcGIS products without a specific error ID. Basically it means "uh-oh something bad happened".

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Error 999999 when using .isalnum in ArcGIS field calculator?

ArcGIS keeps throwing an error when I use the following script in the field calculator, using Python: pre-logic script code: y= () if !fieldx!.isalnum(): y= 1 else: y= 0 Fieldy= y The ...
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Why Intersect gives ERROR 999999: Error executing function Invalid Topology [Too many lineseg endpoints]?

I am trying to run an Intersect process in arcgis 10 sp 3 with 2 file sets (aspect and slope) from up to a 1m DEM across an area of 65,000sq km. The aspect has 9,930,384 records and the slope has 31,...
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Why does Erase give ERROR 999999 (Error executing function Invalid Topology Negative point valence)?

I am getting the following error when I try to erase a set of data from a file within a gdb. Any idea on what to do? I have done repair geometry multiple times on the input/erase datasets. I have 16GB ...
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Setting parameters in Script Tool using Python?

I hate to bug you all with the same problem over and over again but I run into a new problem everytime I make a slight change to the code. All I did to the code below was to replace field names to ...
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ExecutING SQL script in ArcGIS field calculator?

I am trying to transfer over row data from a table to columns in a shapefile table. There is a common "SA" variable between the two (i.e. the study area number) but there is more than one land use ...
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Get extent of Georeferenced Rasters in Python and output to polygon shapefile

I would like to create a shapefile containing the extents of each of the rasters in a directory. Is it possible to capture the extent of a raster using Python? I have tried extent1=...
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Listing feature classes with active domains?

I have an Esri file geodatabase with attribute domains defined. I need to delete some of the attribute domains but can't because "The domain is used by an attribute rule.". How might I discover which ...
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GetParameterAsText() error in python script

i have a huge problem with an error . when i use getparameterastext and use it for searchcursor , i encounter to an error .for example the below code import arcpy featureClass = arcpy....
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Inserting DATAFRAME_ELEMENT value into dynamically generated shapefile containing its extent?

This is for ArcGIS 10, Python 2.65. I have code which captures the extent of dataframes within all mxd's in a directory. I also want it to add the dataframe name, scale and the name of the MXD it ...
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ArcObjects C#: Create Random Points fails with ERROR 999999: Error executing function

I am having trouble running some ArcObjects C# code that calls create random points. I would not be doing this in ArcObjects, but I am suffering with the same issue using Arcpy as seen here: http://...
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Debugging ERROR 999999 in Raster to Polygon Scripting?

I am trying to make a script which selects every .png file in a folder beginning with the letters "LG". I then want the scipt create a shapefile, replacing the "LG" with "SH", and then i want the ...
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Problem with setValue() function in ArcGIS 10

I'm trying to add data to an attribute table in ArcGIS 10 using the following code: def make_floor_no( shapefile ): "Makes header for number of Floors (FLO) and calculates value" fieldName = ...
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Geometry is not M-Aware?

When using the Erase geoprocessing tool from the Analyst Toolbox I get the following error "ERROR 999999: Error executing function. The geometry is not M-aware Failed to execute (Erase)." With small ...
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Dissolve in ArcMap gives ERROR 999999

The Dissolve tool is not working for me when I use ArcGIS Desktop 10 to dissolve a shapefile. It says: ERROR 999999: Error executing function. It works perfectly when I use version 9.3. Any help?
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