topic Re: Fill Tool Error 010429 in ArcGIS Spatial Analyst Questions

Fill Tool Error 010429

MathewSchmidtlein — Mon, 04 Nov 2013 17:08:48 GMT

I'm trying to fill a DEM. I keep getting multiple Error 010429 messages. I can't find great documentation on this problem. I've tried running the tool on multiple input DEMs, saved in various locations, with outputs written to multiple formats. The messages associated with the error varies, but includes things like "Error in GRID ID: CalcPackedBytes: invalid depth: -1," and "Error in GRID IO: S_VXfer: Read error". It is often accompanied by Error 010244: Could not set the analysis window.

I can't find any documentation on these. Has anyone else encountered these problems, and found a solution?

Thanks,

Re: Fill Tool Error 010429

MarkBoucher — Tue, 05 Nov 2013 18:22:30 GMT

Two initial thoughts...

Make sure your processing extent covers the limits of the DEM you are filling. (Geoprocessin>Environments>Processing Extent)

If you have a large DEM, try putting it on your local machine and process it there as apposed to over a network.

Re: Fill Tool Error 010429

MathewSchmidtlein — Wed, 06 Nov 2013 01:03:33 GMT

Thanks, Mark.

I've already tried both of these. I set both the processing extent and raster cell size to match the input raster in the Fill tool environment, and was already working locally.

Re: Fill Tool Error 010429

MarkBoucher — Wed, 06 Nov 2013 15:48:51 GMT

I got nothing else.

Here's the ESRI explaination of that error:
http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index.html#//00vq0000000z010429

Re: Fill Tool Error 010429

WilliamDeadman — Fri, 19 Jun 2015 14:09:19 GMT

I know that this is an old post, but I had this problem and was tearing my hair out having tried everything that I could find on Google and the usual forums. In the end I created a new map, dragged all of my layers across and everything worked perfectly - can't explain it, but if it prevents someone else wasting 90 minutes then thought I would post my 'solution' anyway.

Re: Fill Tool Error 010429

MarkBoucher — Wed, 24 Jun 2015 15:11:51 GMT

William,

Welcome to the ESRI-PYHO (Pulling Your Hair Out) club. I feel your pain.

Glad you got around the problem. Creating a new mxd has helped me several times.

Mark

Re: Fill Tool Error 010429

curtvprice — Sat, 27 Jun 2015 05:54:56 GMT

I"m thinking this had to do with raster environment Output Coordinate System. It's usually best to explicitly set to be the same as the raster data your are filling. Otherwise things project on the fly -- resampling as you process. This is likely will break or corrupt the fill tool.

Re: Fill Tool Error 010429

BuffyConrad — Sun, 18 Oct 2015 20:19:34 GMT

Thank you. Just had the exact problem and this was the solution

Re: Fill Tool Error 010429

curtvprice — Sun, 25 Oct 2015 05:18:02 GMT

William Deadman re your 'fix' -- my guess is the new ArcMap document had a nice clean raster environment that didn't have environment properties set that were breaking the tool. An example of a setting that would cause this issue would be a workspace or scratch workspace setting pointing to a workspace that did not exist.

One place to look for such settings is in the Results window entry, which includes a list of all active environment settings when the tool was run.

Re: Fill Tool Error 010429

jamalhassan — Mon, 13 Mar 2017 14:44:14 GMT

One solution for this problem may work. when you create a mosaic from DEMs, do it in projected coordinate system. My problem solved when I created DEM in file geodatabase by selecting WGS 1984 projected coordinated system.

Re: Fill Tool Error 010429

GarretDuffy — Thu, 25 Jul 2019 20:00:26 GMT

FWIW, I fixed this problem by changing the Windows TMP environment variable from my C drive, which was low on space, to a large external (USB 3.0) hard drive with plenty of space. ArcHydro then had sufficient space for the temp files and this fixed the error. The second solution here helped me in deciding this course of action.

Note that I tried changing the location of temp files in Arc Advanced Settings Utility but this had no effect (the temp files were still being written to the C drive).

Changing the TMP environment variable and restarting the machine was the only way I could get Arc Hydro (AH) to redirect the temp files. Note that you can check/confirm where AH is writing the temp files in the AH toolbar: ApUtilties > Additional Utilities > Clean User's Temp Folder.

Hope this helps,

Garret

Re: Fill Tool Error 010429

curtvprice — Thu, 25 Jul 2019 23:42:53 GMT

Glad you found a fix! All kinds of things can go wonky when your Windows drive is full. In fact back in the days of smaller hard drives, we would set the windows env variables TMP and TEMP to D:\TEMP (off the Windows system drive). So Garrett, I recommend cleaning up your C drive even now that you have archydro working! Open windows explorer, type %TEMP% in the address window, and try to delete some stuff, especially with old modify dates.