This is happening on Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise SP1.
I have built a model in ModelBuilder that (in summary) takes a feature set, does a whole load of spatial unions, buffers the input feature set to 2 miles and then does a final spatial join with that on another feature set. All the union results are parameters, as is the buffered shape. I have all the results outputting to %scratchfolder%\quads, %scratchfolder%\project_buffered, etc. Everything apart from the buffering runs fine. I am seeing the following when I get to the running of the buffer tool:
ERROR 000210: Cannot create output C:\Users\frank_mclean\Documents\ArcGIS\scratch\project_buffered
Failed to execute (Buffer).
1. The project_buffered shapefile actually seems to be created just fine.
2. I am running ArcMap as an administrator.
3. If I change the buffer output to be something like 'C:\Temp\project_buffered', the model runs fine. With the issue then, of source, that if I rerun the model, it basically won't, because 'C:\Temp\project_buffered' already exists.
So, my questions are:
1. What's going on? 🙂
2. I'm going at all this to get a result so I can publish the model as a service. If I do a hack like point 3, above, will I be able to publish the service and not worry that whenever it runs it won't use an appropriate scratch area? By which I mean can I be assured of this, not just try it and see it works and then bet the farm? 🙂
Thanks,
Frank