ArcPro 3.3 unable to create address point (point address role) locator when data source is from a network share

[DavidColey]

Hello -

ArcPro 3.3 seems to be unable to create an address point (point address role) locator when data source is from a network share using the Create Locator geocoding tool.  My address point layer contains about 300K address points, is projected in Web Mercator.

It's a simple build, in place since 3.0, and I build new locators at each release.  No problems through 3.2.x.

Here, when I sourced the data from a file gdb on my local drive, i.e.

(C:\StageDBs\ProdWM.gdb)

the build took place in a little over 6 minutes.   When over the network share:

(\\. . .StageDBs\ProdWM.gdb)

the tool is hanging on step 'Processing Point Address role'.

All share and read\write permissions are in place.

[DavidColey]

Actually, scratch that above.  It does work, it just now takes over an hour over the network at the moment:

Start Time: Tuesday, May 14, 2024 11:45:43 AM
Locator build started
Data processing started
Processing Point Address role
Finished processing data
Finished initializing builder
Initializing country info...
Storing build info...
Building location table...
Building places table...
Building relationships...
Storing search index...
Storing polygons...
Building suggestions structures...
Finalizing locator...
Finished building locator

Succeeded at Tuesday, May 14, 2024 1:01:20 PM (Elapsed Time: 1 hours 15 minutes 36 seconds)

Not sure why yet .  .  .

[DavidColey]

This still takes around  1hour 15.  Still not sure why, but to avoid downtime with my geolocator service, I do the re-build in one directory, stop the geolocator service using the api, then, use an xcopy to overwrite the locator files in my registered location.