topic Re: Can't create sd file using ArcGIS for Desktop in Mapping Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/can-t-create-sd-file-using-arcgis-for-desktop/m-p/488963#M5254 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><SPAN style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #fefefe;">Make sure you are not accessing files in the folder containing the service definition.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #fefefe;"><A href="http://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/tool-reference/tool-errors-and-warnings/001001-010000/tool-errors-and-warnings-01251-01275-001269.htm" title="http://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/tool-reference/tool-errors-and-warnings/001001-010000/tool-errors-and-warnings-01251-01275-001269.htm">001269: Compressing the service definition failed.—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop</A> </SPAN></P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 13 Jul 2016 05:33:31 GMT JayantaPoddar 2016-07-13T05:33:31Z Can't create sd file using ArcGIS for Desktop https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/can-t-create-sd-file-using-arcgis-for-desktop/m-p/488961#M5252 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>This is a strange one, I am trying to use ArcGIS for Desktop (10.2.2) to publish and mxd to my Server installation.&nbsp; When trying to do this as I usually do, I get so far and then get the error:</P><P>ERROR 001269: Compressing the service definition failed</P><P></P><P>and it gets no further and doesn't publish the map.</P><P></P><P>Strange thing is, I can create an .sddraft file using the same tool, then using the python window I can manually type in:</P><P>arcpy.StageService_server('file.sdraft','file.sd)</P><P></P><P>and this is successful and it generates the .sd file and I can then use this to publish the service manually directly on the server, so it seems the problem lies with what arcgis desktop is asking arcpy to execute.&nbsp; Is there any way to get debug information on the exact python script being executed?</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 20 Aug 2014 19:47:47 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/can-t-create-sd-file-using-arcgis-for-desktop/m-p/488961#M5252 GreigMcArthur 2014-08-20T19:47:47Z Re: Can't create sd file using ArcGIS for Desktop https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/can-t-create-sd-file-using-arcgis-for-desktop/m-p/488962#M5253 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>are you using 64bit python implementation? use 32bit instead, this is what I found out when testing an update script for my AGOL feature service. Not sure why StageService_server fails in 64bit python.</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 12 Jul 2016 22:38:16 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/can-t-create-sd-file-using-arcgis-for-desktop/m-p/488962#M5253 ChrisPedrezuela 2016-07-12T22:38:16Z Re: Can't create sd file using ArcGIS for Desktop https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/can-t-create-sd-file-using-arcgis-for-desktop/m-p/488963#M5254 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><SPAN style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #fefefe;">Make sure you are not accessing files in the folder containing the service definition.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #fefefe;"><A href="http://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/tool-reference/tool-errors-and-warnings/001001-010000/tool-errors-and-warnings-01251-01275-001269.htm" title="http://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/tool-reference/tool-errors-and-warnings/001001-010000/tool-errors-and-warnings-01251-01275-001269.htm">001269: Compressing the service definition failed.—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop</A> </SPAN></P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 13 Jul 2016 05:33:31 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/can-t-create-sd-file-using-arcgis-for-desktop/m-p/488963#M5254 JayantaPoddar 2016-07-13T05:33:31Z Re: Can't create sd file using ArcGIS for Desktop https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/can-t-create-sd-file-using-arcgis-for-desktop/m-p/488964#M5255 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I am getting this error as well using ArcGIS for Desktop 10.2.2. I am wondering if there is a record limit on how many features you can publish. The dataset I am trying to publish has over 62K records. When I take a small sample from the dataset, it publishes with no issue. Has anyone tried to publish a large dataset?</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 29 Aug 2016 17:21:27 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/can-t-create-sd-file-using-arcgis-for-desktop/m-p/488964#M5255 RonChan 2016-08-29T17:21:27Z Re: Can't create sd file using ArcGIS for Desktop https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/can-t-create-sd-file-using-arcgis-for-desktop/m-p/488965#M5256 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I'm using 10.3. I'm publishing 100k records. It's fine.&nbsp;</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 29 Aug 2016 18:50:16 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/can-t-create-sd-file-using-arcgis-for-desktop/m-p/488965#M5256 ChrisPedrezuela 2016-08-29T18:50:16Z