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"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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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 ext …
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Why does Erase give ERROR 999999 (Error executing function Invalid Topology Negative point v...

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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Why does Erase give ERROR 999999 (Error executing function Invalid Topology Negative point v...

The basic reason for this seems to be just the size of the dataset. See Why Intersect gives ERROR 999999: Error executing function Invalid Topology [Too many lineseg endpoints]? There are some othe …
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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=a …
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Why Intersect gives ERROR 999999: Error executing function Invalid Topology [Too many linese...

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 31,4 …
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