topic Intersect Failed to Execute in Geoprocessing Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/intersect-failed-to-execute/m-p/507768#M16895 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hello,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I am new to GIS and attempting to run an Intersect between point shapefiles.&nbsp; My goal is to join the tables of the two datasets so as to regress them.&nbsp; One shapefile is the biodiversity of certain families of reptiles, the other is certain climatic parameters.&nbsp; They do not share the same number of points, but overlap perfectly and amount to over 14 million points each.&nbsp; I would like to use Intersect because it would eliminate points that do not overlap and combine the tables.&nbsp; Spatial Join, my first option, is taking an unfeasible amount of time to accomplish so I am hoping an Intersect will work.&nbsp; Here's the problem I get:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Using a PC with 4GB memory:</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Start Time: Wed May 16 12:37:52 2012</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Reading Features...</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>ERROR 999999: Error executing function.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Invalid Topology [Cfile write error.]</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Failed to execute (Intersect).</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Failed at Wed May 16 13:01:32 2012 (Elapsed Time: 23 minutes 40 seconds)</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Any suggestions?&nbsp; Thanks,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Chris</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 16 May 2012 16:45:01 GMT ChrisClaes1 2012-05-16T16:45:01Z Intersect Failed to Execute https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/intersect-failed-to-execute/m-p/507768#M16895 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hello,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I am new to GIS and attempting to run an Intersect between point shapefiles.&nbsp; My goal is to join the tables of the two datasets so as to regress them.&nbsp; One shapefile is the biodiversity of certain families of reptiles, the other is certain climatic parameters.&nbsp; They do not share the same number of points, but overlap perfectly and amount to over 14 million points each.&nbsp; I would like to use Intersect because it would eliminate points that do not overlap and combine the tables.&nbsp; Spatial Join, my first option, is taking an unfeasible amount of time to accomplish so I am hoping an Intersect will work.&nbsp; Here's the problem I get:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Using a PC with 4GB memory:</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Start Time: Wed May 16 12:37:52 2012</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Reading Features...</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>ERROR 999999: Error executing function.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Invalid Topology [Cfile write error.]</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Failed to execute (Intersect).</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Failed at Wed May 16 13:01:32 2012 (Elapsed Time: 23 minutes 40 seconds)</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Any suggestions?&nbsp; Thanks,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Chris</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 16 May 2012 16:45:01 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/intersect-failed-to-execute/m-p/507768#M16895 ChrisClaes1 2012-05-16T16:45:01Z