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Build network dataset failed

FrankOgiamien — Mon, 24 Jun 2013 16:47:14 GMT

My road network was previously in Shapefile format and the editing/building of the network used to work fine. I have now converted it to a featureclass in a file geoDB. I was able to create the Network dataset using these features, however when I need to edit the data, such as adding a new road, or fixing a broken road segment I am unable to rebuild the network. I get the error "Build network dataset failed. The logical network is of an older version and does not support the requested functionality.

Is there no longer a need to rebuild a network after editing in .gdb format?

Thanks for any comments or assistance you can provide,

Frank

Re: Build network dataset failed

JaySandhu — Mon, 24 Jun 2013 17:21:23 GMT

Can you check if you have enabled turns in your network dataset? If no, then can you set it to yes when you create the network and then try your edit/rebuild scenario and see if that message goes away?
Jay Sandhu

Re: Build network dataset failed

FrankOgiamien — Mon, 24 Jun 2013 17:44:02 GMT

Hey that fixed my problem! Thanks very much!
Frank

Re: Build network dataset failed

GurmeetVirk — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 20:59:00 GMT

Jay

I am getting the same error. I tried it in GeoDatabase and FileDatabase. I already enabled turns in the network dataset and Hard disk has more than 13 GB space left.

Re: Build network dataset failed

JaySandhu — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 18:27:30 GMT

Gurmeet,

can you post some more details on the size of your network dataset, and is your TEMP folder in the same place with the free 13 GB disk space.

Jay Sandhu

Re: Build network dataset failed

nataliemartinkus1 — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 17:03:11 GMT

Hi Jay,

I am having the same problem with my network dataset failing to build. I searched my C drive and there are a few Temp folders. Would it be this one? --> C:\Windows\Temp ? If so, my C drive has 47 GB of free space. Can you please give me guidance on how to get my dataset to build? My network dataset is 832 MB (roads for all of the PNW).

thanks so much

natalie

Re: Build network dataset failed

JaySandhu — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 17:10:37 GMT

The Build Network leaves a log file. You can open it in Notepad and see what messages are in there. The file is usually created in a temporary folder inside the system temp folder. To get to the system temp, in an explorer window, navigate to %TEMP% this is usually c:\users\<user name>\AppData\Temp and then search for a recent folder perhaps starting with the word arc and look for a build.txt file.

Jay Sandhu

Re: Build network dataset failed

nataliemartinkus1 — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 19:08:04 GMT

Hi Jay,

I looked in C:\Windows\Temp and C:\Users\Natalie\AppData\Local\Temp and there is no recent folder or text file associated with esri or build.txt. I also searched my C drive for build.txt and nothing came up. Is there a way to specify in ArcCatalog where it will put the log file?

thank you,

natalie

Re: Build network dataset failed

JaySandhu — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 20:12:12 GMT

You can specify the location of the TEMP but not where to put the log file. I suggest that you start the build network and then while it is running, open the arc folder while it is still running. These folders are normally deleted when you exit ArcCatalog app.

Jay Sandhu

Re: Build network dataset failed

nataliemartinkus1 — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 20:55:28 GMT

I apologize for being dense when it comes to this background computing stuff, but I don't know which arc folder you are referring to. Can you please be a little more specific?

Re: Build network dataset failed

JaySandhu — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 21:35:35 GMT

"navigate to %TEMP% this is usually c:\users\<user name>\AppData\Temp and then search for a recent folder perhaps starting with the word ARC and look for a build.txt file"

Re: Build network dataset failed

JaySandhu — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 17:00:08 GMT

Were you able to investigate it more and find the build log files?

Re: Build network dataset failed

nataliemartinkus1 — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 17:06:55 GMT

Hi Jay,

I was not able to find the build log files. I re-ran the "build" yesterday and still could not find any files in any Temp location that were connected to the "build network" operation, including in the AppData/Temp folder. I ended up exporting the networked road feature class to a new geodatabase, and am in the process of removing chunks of roads that are not important in my analysis to make a smaller networked road dataset so it should hopefully build correctly. The weird thing is I have used the networked road dataset in question a lot over the years. I recently updated a few columns of data so I needed to re-run the build command. I cleared out my Trash bin and tried running the Build command with only ArcCatalog open, so no other programs were sucking memory from the computer, and it still didnt work.

thanks,

natalie

Re: Build network dataset failed

JaySandhu — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 17:13:10 GMT

What error do you get during build network?

One thing you can check if your "edits" caused a lot of dirty areas to have been created. You can add the network dataset to ArcMap and then in the Table of Contents, right-click to bring up the properties and in the Symbology tab, turn on dirty areas. If their are a lot of dirty areas then they could be causing long build times. To get around that you can either delete the network dataset and re-create/build it or make an edit that causes a full rebuild like adding a new cost attribute to the network dataset and then deleting it.

Jay Sandhu

Re: Build network dataset failed

nataliemartinkus1 — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 18:28:32 GMT

I deleted the network dataset and rebuilt it, and that fixed the problem. Thank you for your suggestions and follow up. I always appreciate it.

Natalie