“build overviews” for a mosaic generates black\while tiles

[JamalNUMAN]

Applying “build overviews” for a mosaic generates black\while tiles,

For example, in the screenshots below, in order to let the mosaic appear in all scales, the “build overviews” is applied. However, this generates black\while tiles.

How this might be resolved?

Thank you

Best

Jamal

[JamalNUMAN]

Sorry. I just observed that the “build overviews” ends with error.

Do I really need a server license to apply the “build overviews”?

[AhmadSALEH1 · Accepted solution]

Hi

No you really dot need a server license, try to go to geoprocessing menu > Environments then go to Parallel processing set the parallel processing factor to 1. Then try to build the overviews again.

 

please be aware that you need to build the mosaic overviews when you change the overview sampling factor from 3 to 5, this is related for my previous answer and has nothing to do with the server license issue.

Thanks

[AhmadSALEH1]

I have tested the issue with your data and its working fine with me when stetting the parallel processing factor to 1

thanks,

ahmad

[JamalNUMAN]

Thanks Ahmad. It works as a charm.

[JamalNUMAN]

This works fine in ArcMap 10.6.1

[JohnJanzen]

I also get this checkerboard visualization but for a different reason.  My raster is stored on a server share but on my desktop, I connect to it via a letter drive connection (eg. E:/).  My apps and services connect to the server address (eg. //10.1.1.2/data) so after I've added my rasters, I need to "Repair Mosaic Dataset Paths" using the geoprocessing tool and give it the server path.