"LAS to Multipoint" Problem

[WilliamForney]

Hello,

I am encountering a problem with executing this simple command to import LiDAR data into a file geodatabase, and am asking this community for assistance. 

Using the "folder" option on a folder that has ~1,300 .las files and ~85GB of data, I am getting the following error message:

Executing: LASToMultipoint G:\Klamath\OtherContent\Lidar_LAS\All G:\Analysis\LiDAR_points.gdb\all_cloud 0.725 # ANY_RETURNS # # las
Start Time: Tue Dec 28 14:33:56 2010
ERROR 999999: Error executing function.
General function failure [all_cloud]
General function failure [all_cloud]
Failed to execute (LASToMultipoint).
End Time: Tue Dec 28 15:06:31 2010 (Elapsed Time: 32 minutes 35 seconds)

Any suggestions?

[MIchalBularz]

Error 999999 is kind of an "undetermined" error usually hardware or just a tool is not advanced enough to really determine what error it is.
Last time I got it with this tool is because my .las wasn't classified and  the tool includes options for inserting columns that are probably a standard title by .las standards. I'm not sure if this is your issue - you can try an individual .las file to see if it works, if you are trying to batch process a folder then it could be any of the files that are missing things you are trying to extract. Take this as a guess though.

[KhalidDuri1]

After the error, is there a multipoint feature in the gdb? Can you run Point File Information on the workspace that contains the LAS files and post the total number of points you are writing? The reason I ask is that I'm wondering whether you're somehow reaching the 4,294,967,295 row limit for an fgdb table. The average spacing value is used to determine a tile size for inserting ~3500 points from your Lidar files into a given multipoint feature. Assuming the average spacing value is generally reliable, we can sort of extrapolate the number of rows that would be written into the multipoint dataset and see if the limit is being encountered.

Regards,
Khalid