topic Help! Scratch Workspace not setting for Scratch GDB in Python Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/help-scratch-workspace-not-setting-for-scratch-gdb/m-p/165280#M12704 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I need to define my scratch workspace, but python is not taking the input. Here is what I have:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="plain" name="code"># Setup Working Environment path = "D:\\gis\\Data\\" arcpy.env.scratchworkspace = path print "Scratch workspace set to " + env.scratchGDB + "\n"</PRE><DIV style="display:none;"> </DIV><BR /><BR /><SPAN>This should set the scratchGDB to </SPAN><STRONG>d:\gis\Data\scratch.gdb</STRONG><SPAN>. However it still sets it to </SPAN><STRONG>C:\Users\tdmc0\AppData\Local\Temp\2\scratch.gdb</STRONG><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I cannot have the scratch GDB inside of my temp users directory as it changes daily and this is part of an automated process that has layers in a map document pointing to layers inside my scratch GDB. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Why can I not set my scratch workspace? I have followed all of the guidelines in the ArcGIS documentation. Thanks.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 18 Feb 2014 15:08:26 GMT MarcCusumano 2014-02-18T15:08:26Z Help! Scratch Workspace not setting for Scratch GDB https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/help-scratch-workspace-not-setting-for-scratch-gdb/m-p/165280#M12704 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I need to define my scratch workspace, but python is not taking the input. Here is what I have:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="plain" name="code"># Setup Working Environment path = "D:\\gis\\Data\\" arcpy.env.scratchworkspace = path print "Scratch workspace set to " + env.scratchGDB + "\n"</PRE><DIV style="display:none;"> </DIV><BR /><BR /><SPAN>This should set the scratchGDB to </SPAN><STRONG>d:\gis\Data\scratch.gdb</STRONG><SPAN>. However it still sets it to </SPAN><STRONG>C:\Users\tdmc0\AppData\Local\Temp\2\scratch.gdb</STRONG><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I cannot have the scratch GDB inside of my temp users directory as it changes daily and this is part of an automated process that has layers in a map document pointing to layers inside my scratch GDB. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Why can I not set my scratch workspace? I have followed all of the guidelines in the ArcGIS documentation. Thanks.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 18 Feb 2014 15:08:26 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/help-scratch-workspace-not-setting-for-scratch-gdb/m-p/165280#M12704 MarcCusumano 2014-02-18T15:08:26Z