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Error 1325. EsriPyFldr is not a valid short file name.

PanGIS — Thu, 12 May 2016 15:35:15 GMT

I installed "data interoperability" The extension was already licensed but not installed.

After the installation I saw a difference in the behaviour of ArcMap. The sf did not start (in task manager: not responding).

Anyway I could open a session after many tries.

That was the only session I could open.

(ArcCatalog, Arcgis admin and License manager (arcgis is licensed as single use but LSM holds other concurrent licenses) and PRO gave me the same problem).

Didn't know what to do and I unistalled interoperability as I thought that that was the problem. Still they don't open.

I ve tried to repair arcgis but I get this error

I might have messed up the python folder.

Cannot understand where the problem can be.

Does anyone have a hint?

Thanks

Re: Error 1325. EsriPyFldr is not a valid short file name.

DanPatterson_Retired — Thu, 12 May 2016 15:42:35 GMT

same error with a solution Uninstalling ArcGIS 10.3.1 for Desktop prior to installing 10.4 Pre-release

Re: Error 1325. EsriPyFldr is not a valid short file name.

PanGIS — Thu, 12 May 2016 15:51:57 GMT

Hi Dan,

thanks.

do you refer to this?

I've already went through this post but I wasn't sure it would apply to my case as I didn't get the error 1606.

Re: Error 1325. EsriPyFldr is not a valid short file name.

DanPatterson_Retired — Thu, 12 May 2016 15:55:47 GMT

Avoiding Error 1325 EsriPyFldr not valid short file name when uninstalling ArcGIS for Desktop? - Geographic Information … inside link

Re: Error 1325. EsriPyFldr is not a valid short file name.

LaureneKoman — Thu, 12 May 2016 16:17:26 GMT

Pan F:

can you open your registry to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\ESRI\Python<will have some version>\

expand the folder and in the right pane, what is the folder for PythonDir?

thanks

Laurene Koman

ArcGIS Installation Team

Re: Error 1325. EsriPyFldr is not a valid short file name.

PanGIS — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:45:48 GMT

Hi Laurene,

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\ESRI\Python10.2 ----> PythonDir is in c:\Python27\

here the folder:

Thanks.

Re: Error 1325. EsriPyFldr is not a valid short file name.

PanGIS — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:41:42 GMT

Update:

I did uninstall the ArcGIS_Desktop_BackgroundGP_102.

I might have messed up really badly because now both Python and desktop don't exist anymore... (desktop is still installed, tough)

According to my control panel the only Python version installed is:

Re: Error 1325. EsriPyFldr is not a valid short file name.

curtvprice — Fri, 13 May 2016 15:52:48 GMT

Pan, that isn't Python, that's PythonWin. You should remove that and PyScripter before reinstalling ArcGIS.

Re: Error 1325. EsriPyFldr is not a valid short file name.

PanGIS — Mon, 27 Jun 2016 09:09:41 GMT

The solution given by Dan Patterson did actually give me the chance of removing the software and then reinstall, but the cause that cause the problem was still there and after an exhausting process of trying this and trying that with the Support, the machine was formatted and the problem went finally away.

Thanks.

Re: Error 1325. EsriPyFldr is not a valid short file name.

SaschaFlury1 — Thu, 28 Jul 2016 11:42:04 GMT

we had the same error when installing ArcGIS 10.4.1. Uninstalling 10.3 caused the error.
The cause was a reference to a nonexistent drive (D:\). With a USB stick as a substitute drive D:\ work uninstallation.

The following command created a log file where the error was found:
msiexec / x {9A0BC33A-EAA8-4ED4-8D0C-CB9B42B06D7F} / qb / L * v c: \ temp \ Uninstall.log

A search in the text editor to "EsriPy" was a reference to the wrong drive:
Log: MSI (s) (B8: 28) [13: 12: 34: 081]: PROPERTY CHANGE: Adding INITIAL_PYDIR property. Its value is 'D:\ EsriPyFld'.

Hope it helps

Re: Error 1325. EsriPyFldr is not a valid short file name.

MikeTree — Wed, 10 Aug 2016 20:35:43 GMT

I also cannot uninstall my trial version of ArcGIS Desktop 10.4

I get the following error:

Error 1325. EsriPyFldr is not a valid short file name.

This is terrible. What do I do next? I have googled the uninstall utility but cannot find it ANYWHERE on ESRI's website.

Re: Error 1325. EsriPyFldr is not a valid short file name.

LaureneKoman — Wed, 10 Aug 2016 20:41:44 GMT

Are you comfortable with accessing your machine’s registry and letting me know the value of this registry key:

64 bit machine:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\ESRI\Python10.4\PythonDir (will have an install path such as c:\python27)

If you are on a 32 bit machine – it will be

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ESRI\Python10.4\PythonDir (will have an install path such as c:\python27)

Thanks

Laurene Koman

Re: Error 1325. EsriPyFldr is not a valid short file name.

MikeTree — Wed, 10 Aug 2016 22:57:07 GMT

Yes, it's C:\python27 (x64). Thanks

Re: Error 1325. EsriPyFldr is not a valid short file name.

LaureneKoman — Wed, 10 Aug 2016 23:17:38 GMT

And do you see the files in c:\python27 on disk?

Thank you!

Re: Error 1325. EsriPyFldr is not a valid short file name.

MikeTree — Fri, 12 Aug 2016 06:13:03 GMT

Yes, the C:\Python27\ArcGIS10.4 directory is nicely populated. Thanks

Re: Error 1325. EsriPyFldr is not a valid short file name.

LaureneKoman — Sat, 13 Aug 2016 17:19:44 GMT

Please do the following - uninstall with this command. When you get the error, Exit from the installation and locate DTremove.log file in your %temp% folder. Share this log file with me for further troubleshooting.

Msiexec.exe /x {72E7DF0D-FFEE-43CE-A5FA-43DFC25DC087} /L*V %temp%\DTremove.log

Re: Error 1325. EsriPyFldr is not a valid short file name.

SteveRhyne1 — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 22:16:45 GMT

I ran into this error while trying to install 10.4.1 over 10.3.1. Deleting the registry section as suggested elsewhere didn't help. Trying to uninstall 10.3.1 via the original setup.msi or via the "Programs and Features" control panel resulted in the same error. Sascha's suggestion revealed that the uninstaller was searching for an "F:" drive. I mapped an empty drive to that letter and the 10.4.1 installation proceeded without an error.

Re: Error 1325. EsriPyFldr is not a valid short file name.

SDUPD — Tue, 03 Oct 2017 13:39:37 GMT

After beating my head against the wall and trying all the solutions offered in the GIS blogs/sites I discovered that the MS installer can get tweeked out. I was directed to the following solution:

http://support.microsoft.com/mats/Program_Install_and_Uninstall

After running the process and selecting the version of software that was throwing the problem I was able to install my software without any issue.