topic Invalid Topology [Distress.] error message during Erase in Geoprocessing Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/invalid-topology-distress-error-message-during/m-p/12215#M427 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Please also see the post "Error when Erasing" by Joseph Hayes in the old forums.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I'm getting this error message when trying to perform an erase function.&nbsp; Any suggestions?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>ERROR 999999: Error executing function. </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Invalid Topology [Distress.] </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Failed to execute (Erase).</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 12 Jul 2010 21:47:09 GMT RolandSchwietz 2010-07-12T21:47:09Z Invalid Topology [Distress.] error message during Erase https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/invalid-topology-distress-error-message-during/m-p/12215#M427 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Please also see the post "Error when Erasing" by Joseph Hayes in the old forums.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I'm getting this error message when trying to perform an erase function.&nbsp; Any suggestions?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>ERROR 999999: Error executing function. </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Invalid Topology [Distress.] </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Failed to execute (Erase).</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 12 Jul 2010 21:47:09 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/invalid-topology-distress-error-message-during/m-p/12215#M427 RolandSchwietz 2010-07-12T21:47:09Z Re: Invalid Topology [Distress.] error message during Erase https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/invalid-topology-distress-error-message-during/m-p/12216#M428 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Well I found a work around.&nbsp; Simply use shapefiles instead of geodatabse feature classes for all inputs and outputs.&nbsp; Don't ask me why it worked, but it did.&nbsp; Anyone from ESRI have any ideas?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 13 Jul 2010 14:21:17 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/invalid-topology-distress-error-message-during/m-p/12216#M428 RolandSchwietz 2010-07-13T14:21:17Z Re: Invalid Topology [Distress.] error message during Erase https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/invalid-topology-distress-error-message-during/m-p/12217#M429 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I like your famous ESRI error code. So useful! Anyway, your error does say invalid topology...do you have topologically clean data </SPAN><STRONG>before</STRONG><SPAN> you ran the erase tool?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:33:57 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/invalid-topology-distress-error-message-during/m-p/12217#M429 SimonWillis 2010-07-13T17:33:57Z