Failure or Kriging Tool

RoyHewitt

Hello all,

A field biologist has point data from sampling locations.  He has used the kriging tool in the past (Spatial Analyst), but now every time he runs it, it returns error: 999999, which tells you absolutely nothing about why the tool failed.

I took his data across the office over to my desk, and the tool ran fine -- twice.  Now I'm getting the same error 999999 with no understanding as to why.

Has anyone else experienced this or someone with a suggestion??

Thank You

JeffreySwain

If it worked once, but subsequent runs fail, I would consider moving the scratch space directory. As ArcMap and Spatial Analyst processes data, the working directory fills up with data from the processes.  If changing that directory does not solve the analysis, I would consider running the tool locally, to avoid sporadic network differences with Esri GRIDs across the network. If that does not solve the issue, then placing a Support call to check out the differences in your processing syntax. I would recommend against names that have symbols or start with numbers and paths with too many spaces or special characters.