https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/why-am-i-allowed-to-create-a-feature-class-in-the/m-p/1223239#M26552 <P>ArcGIS Pro 3.0.2<BR /><BR />I've read somewhere that Copy gp-tool fails to copy a dataset to a drive root by design. And yet, Create Feature Class successfully creates a shapefile in D:\.<BR /><BR />I use ArcGIS Pro SDK, so I noticed that GetDefinition method throws an exception internally failing to create a Uri while initializing a FileDatastore. So I suppose that the root scenario is not tested well.</P><P>My question is: Why is the root path forbidden <SPAN class=""><SPAN class=""><SPAN class="">although</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> I can successfully create a dataset there?</P> Wed, 19 Oct 2022 09:59:19 GMT Konstantin_Ulyanov 2022-10-19T09:59:19Z https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/why-am-i-allowed-to-create-a-feature-class-in-the/m-p/1223239#M26552 <P>ArcGIS Pro 3.0.2<BR /><BR />I've read somewhere that Copy gp-tool fails to copy a dataset to a drive root by design. And yet, Create Feature Class successfully creates a shapefile in D:\.<BR /><BR />I use ArcGIS Pro SDK, so I noticed that GetDefinition method throws an exception internally failing to create a Uri while initializing a FileDatastore. So I suppose that the root scenario is not tested well.</P><P>My question is: Why is the root path forbidden <SPAN class=""><SPAN class=""><SPAN class="">although</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> I can successfully create a dataset there?</P> Wed, 19 Oct 2022 09:59:19 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/why-am-i-allowed-to-create-a-feature-class-in-the/m-p/1223239#M26552 Konstantin_Ulyanov 2022-10-19T09:59:19Z