topic Re: When using to_featurelayer, getting an "Overwrite unsuccessful" error in ArcGIS API for Python Questions

When using to_featurelayer, getting an "Overwrite unsuccessful" error

SarahHurley1 — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 20:37:54 GMT

I am trying to publish a feature layer to AGOL through python. I have a script and have successfully done this many times with this script in the past few weeks. All of a sudden, I am getting an error that says "Exception: Overwrite unsuccessful. Check that editing capabilities are enabled on your service."

When this is happening, a File Geodatabase is published to my AGOL, which I can manually go click on and hit "Publish" and get the feature layer I was originally trying to get.

I've tested on a few different datasets (some from my local computer, also tried to grab a simple feature layer from AGOL and republish), but I am getting the same error every time. I have updated the arcgis module and all the modules I am using in my script currently (although this error came up before I did any updates).

Just wondering if anyone else has experienced this lately and/or if there are any solutions?

I am able to otherwise successfully pull in feature layers, truncate, update, etc. But just running into this issue when initially publishing?

feature_layer = census_map.spatial.to_featurelayer('Test')

Thanks in advance for any help or advice.

Re: When using to_featurelayer, getting an "Overwrite unsuccessful" error

JosephHilliard94 — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 16:07:00 GMT

Getting the same issue when publishing a service definition file I have uploaded

Re: When using to_featurelayer, getting an "Overwrite unsuccessful" error

StephaniePhillips-MG — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 15:47:04 GMT

Sarah / Joseph - I just ran into this today - I have been using this snippet for months, and now all I get is the gdb and the failure - did you find a solution? Thank you!

Re: When using to_featurelayer, getting an "Overwrite unsuccessful" error

SarahHurley1 — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 13:46:27 GMT

Hi all - I just found out the solution. It was a problem with the version of the arcgis python package. When I updated ArcGIS Pro last, it updated the package to the newest version and it wasn't working anymore. Once I downgraded the arcgis package to 2.2.X (and pandas to 2.1.X), it is working fine now!