Latest Contributions by V_StuartFoote

Ron, It is a common admin problem with ArcGIS--failure to uninstall 3rd party extensions prior to the ArcGIS uninstall. Unfortunately, Aquaveo does not publish a AHGW cleanup utility that I've come across. You might contact their technical support to ask if such a tool is available. If not, two ways to proceed--first reinstall ArcGIS 9.x & then run the AHGW uninstaller (unpleasant since you've already loaded ArcGIS 10). Alternative--try an uninstaller, I use CCleaner (www.piriform.com) when full package is intact, but you probably want to start with Revo Uninstaller (www.revouninstaller.com)--the Pro version is necessary for 64-bit use--the freeware version is fully functional for 32-bit systems. Revo will perform as much of the uninstall as possible--it then finishes with a registry and configuration file cleanup with adjustable agressiveness.  Following a Revo uninstall, I'll usually run through a CCleaner registry check to be sure all is good.  Reboot! Then proceed with another ArcHyrdo 2.x install attempt. Stuart ... View more

Ron, Did you bypass UAC by running the .exe from a command prompt "Run as Administrator", or better have you activated the Administrator account and run the ESRI.APWR.ApRegWork.exe clean-up from that account? Stuart ... View more

@ronsantini, Suspect you may have had a DLL still registered when you deleted a folder. Below are the removal instructions from the current Readme03152011.doc. Note step 5 and use of the ApRegWork utility. This tool is custom built to unregister the Water Resources components. Stuart Task 0.  Remove legacy WR applications If you have any of the legacy WR applications released before 2/15/05 you will have to uninstall all of them, and reinstall the new suite of applications.  The recommended procedure is the following: [INDENT]1) Close all Arc applications (ArcMap, ArcCatalog, ArcToolbox) 2) In Control Panel in Add/Remove Programs, remove ALL water resources applications including: Arc Hydro Tools, HEC-GeoRAS, HEC-GeoHMS, Water Utilities Application Framework (ApFramework), HEC-GeoDozer, XML Exchange.  Which components are installed depends on the applications you have installed.  If you look in the ESRI installation directory (usually c:\Program Files\ESRI) you will see some of the installed applications. 3) After running the remove application and accepting automated removal, check each of the directories in the application installation directories mentioned in step 2.  If any of the bin directories contain a dll, first unregister the dll and then delete the file. 4) Delete ALL directories that contained the old applications. 5) Recommended �?? run a registry cleaning application to ensure there are no �??hanging�?� components left. You can use the ApRegWork application available on the ftp site as follows:[INDENT]a. Copy the folder ApRegWork from ftp://RiverHydraulics:river.1114@ftp.esri.com and run the setup. b. Browse to start>all programs>apregwork>apregwork.exe This will open a registry cleanup window. c. Keep all defaults and select as Searching Text the application you want to cleanup (ARCHYDRO/ApFramework/HECGEOHMS/HECGEORAS) and click search. This may take 5-10 minutes depending on your computer. d.  Once the search is done (Searching Test is green again), right-click in the panel showing the registry keys found and select Delete All.[/INDENT][/INDENT] If you have a newer application (released after 2/15/05) that you are updating, you need to uninstall only that application unless a different procedure is specified with the application instructions. ... View more

Emily, Looks like your link to the CRWR blog item on the MODIS16 project got trashed.  The CRWR Modis Toolkit is an ArcGIS 10 ArcPy site library based Python toolbox. Anyway, have a look at the rest of the thread and you'll see that ArcHydro extension for Desktop 10 has been available for a while and is being actively refined by Dean Djokic and team. Stuart ... View more

Assume you mean a Native 64-bit OSX version as opposed to Bootcamp or VM Ware Fusion / Parallels Windows Guest OS capability. Would be nice, but 64-bit multi-threaded ArcGIS Desktop is more of a priority for majority of users. ... View more

Sam, Sorry that was so painful for you. I hope you didn't loose too much with the reimage. With the fresh load, look through the litany of "adjustments" needed for Windows 7 over on the Desktop - Installation, configuration forum--and be sure to apply SP1 and patches. Stuart ... View more

Greg, True that the HEC is not developing for ArcGIS Desktop 10 for the Corps, but that doesn't mean that you can not continue to use ArcGIS for your preprocessing of input to or performing analysis of HEC-RAS or HEC-HMS output. You just have more of the work flow to accomplish on your own, or join the market to pay an integrator to do it for you. If you are looking for a turnkey replacement to analysis and modeling  provided by the combined HEC-RAS, GeoRAS extension and ArcGIS Desktop, there are several.  Aquaveo's SMS and WMS products are popular here. Current releases do integrate with HEC-RAS and ArcGIS Desktop 10. Stuart ... View more

Sam, Sorry, I'll leave a zip'd copy of the FNPLicensingService.exe at the ftp link below for you for a day, so you can try to recreate the C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Macrovision Shared\FLEXnet Publisher to bring ArcGIS back up. <link deleted-vsf>/FNPLicensingService.zip And also you should recreate the fnp_registrations.xml file with this text: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <Activation_Service_Users> <Publishers> <Publisher> <Name>ARCGIS</Name> <Products> <Product>ARCGIS</Product> </Products> </Publisher> </Publishers> </Activation_Service_Users> Obviously, a complete uninstall/registry & folder cleanup/reinstall should be more certain than the ArcGIS repair install. Repairing the FlexNet Publisher component outside the installer is going to be dodgy and might still leave unresolved issues with the license calls from ArcPy in IDLE. It is a bit murky, but seem to recall someone at Flexera tech support had told me that the FNPLicensingService.exe was vendor deployed--not a generic, and would be included in libFNP.dll So, not exactly a FlexNet Publisher repair tool, but if you look in C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\ArcGIS\bin you'll see the ArcGIS Administrator and the FNP License components, they're paired--an executable and a DLL: ArcGISAdmin.exe -- ArcGISAdmin_libFNP.dll SoftwareAuthorization.exe -- SoftwareAuthorization_libFNP.dll LicenseUtil.exe -- LicensUtil_libFNP.dll I can't check an install log at the moment, but I assume that the ArcGIS Desktop 10.0 installer first lays down this folder and then runs a script to put down the FNPLicensingService.exe in Macrovision Shared--probably calling the LicenseUtil.exe but I can't test that. So unless someone from ESRI pipes up with details of a manual install & recovery--best bet would probably be to do a complete ArcGIS Desktop 10.0 uninstall--deleting the ArcGIS Common Files & the ArcGIS Publisher stanzas from the Macrovison Shared\FLEXnet Publisher fnp_registrations.xml (if still intact). And if you go that far, probably best to uninstall Python2.6 and clear the registry and delete any file remnants of that as well. Along with your per-user HKLM_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\ESRI registry settings and the C:\Users\<yourusername>\My Documents\ArcGIS and C:\Users\<yourusername>\AppData\Roaming\ESRI folders. I'm pretty comfortable saying that uninstalling, clearing the registry and deleting any residuals followed by a Desktop 10.0 & Python 2.6.5 reinstall from ESRI media and reactivation WILL put everything right. The ONLY reason to have gone through this much pain to bring the Python licensing function back online would have been to keep the SU activation intact--that seems unlikely. So doing the uninstall/clean-up/reinstall is becoming more practical. Stuart ... View more

Sam, Hmmm... thinking about the FNPLicensingService.exe,  normally I don't touch it because it is used by all the applications calling FlexNet Publisher. But, as I install each application, I keep a backup copy of the FNPLicensingService.exe installed by each application. The reason is that the copy in the Macrovision Shared common folder gets clobbered by the latest application installed that uses FNP. I noticed you have Bently and Autodesk products installed--did you notice additional entries in the fnp_registrations.xml? What happens if you shutdown ArcGIS (and Bently Microstation, and Adobe Acrobat--anything mentioned in the .xml) and  then rename the FNPLicensingService.exe?   I think a new copy should get added from cache when you launch ArcGIS Desktop.  Then see if that happens, and also what results when you try an import arcview, import ArcPy in IDLE. Regards the blank fields--that data along with the "fulfillment" records are contained in the TSF files that get rebuilt during the Activation/authorization exchange process, files are all encrypted so can't be tampered with--they're dependent on FNPLicensingService.exe and libFNP.dll to manipulate. Stuart ... View more

Sam, Sorry if I was not clear. The Flexera FlexNet Publisher Trusted Storage File mechanism is used by ESRI for activation and authorization of both SU and Concurrent use products. You'd be deleting the cache on your SU client and don't need to touch the FlexNet License Manager at all. The problem I suspect is that the TSF cache structure on your PC has been corrupted--possibly impacting the SU license activation Python calls. Since IDLE worked while on a concurrent seat activation, clearing and recreating the TSF cache for SU would either fix things--or at least eliminate it as the source of the ArcPY licensing problem. Use the ArcGIS Administrator to release the license. Then, delete the ArcGIS entires in the two folders. Note: ArcGIS_xxxxxxxx_tsf.data file is present on both the SU client and Concurrent use client, the source of the "fulfillment" and activation records it contains differs--directly with ESRI for the SU, or your local ArcGIS License Manager for Concurrent. It would also hold a "borrowed" activation and license for an off network Concurrent seat (e.g. a laptop). Reboot. Open ArcGIS Administrator --> Desktop --> Authorize Now and use your set of ESUxxxxxxxxxxx Authorization numbers to again activate & authorize. Select radio button for the correct Single use license level for your ESU code. The enter the Desktop code and the codes for the Extensions and OK to complete the FNP activation exchange. The .PRVC (or PRVS for license servers) is just a text file that combines all the user data and authorization numbers that would be entered into Authorization Wizard. It saves time and is efficient for ESU codes that have multiple activation entitlements. At education sites, it is how we deploy the authorization codes so the users don't have to manually enter so much info (or make so many mistakes resulting in failed authorizations). Stuart ... View more

Sam, Yup, you're making progress. Here is a thought, since over the weeks you've cycled through several configurations of SU and Concurrent license activations, I'm not convinced that the FlexNet Publisher Trusted Storage handles this robustly. In testing just now I had to manually remove the ArcGIS_xxxxxxxx_tsf.data cache to reestablish a stable SU authorization--fortunately our authorization codes are pretty much unlimited. Both SU and concurrent "fulfillments" are kept in this data store, and as I've dealt more with it I think it can be a problem. Do you still have your Authorization/activation codes handy (or the .PRVC used)? The ArcGIS Administrator Authorization Wizard has a Deauthorize button. You should try cycling through a deauthorize/authorize of your SU seats on your workstation. Do you know how many seats you have on the license. If you have additional, you might just go ahead and do a manual removal of the activations. It will burn a set of activations though, and would have to be recovered through Customer Service. For manual removal, the trusted storage file cache is here: [INDENT]C:\Program Data\FLEXnet\ [/INDENT] and also edit the ArcGIS Publisher lines from here... [INDENT]C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Macrovision Shared\FLEXnet Publisher\fnp_registrations.xml [/INDENT] You'd then reauthorize with the Authorization Wizard and your existing Authorization numbers or .PRVC file. Be careful, because if you have used all the activations, or if the Deauthorize does not release your codes for reuse, you'll have to arrange for an ESRI UK or ESRI Redlands Customer Service rep to rearm your registration numbers. That may mean more down time. Stuart ... View more

Sam, The non-2.6 Keys should go. And everything else looks correct.  So, I'm going to agree with Jason Scheirer that the problem is in the licensing calls. Would make sense, since the uninstall/reinstall does not necessarily clear all the Keys from the registry--you have to go back in a manually delete quite a few. I don't think there are per-User configuration of the license in the Registry. But you could try the simple rename of the the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI key, allowing it to be rebuilt. If that doesn't clear the ArcPy glitch, then the problem will likely be in the HKLM\SOFTWARE Keys.  I'd look here: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\ESRI\License10.0 I'll have to do a SU install on a 64-bit system to compare against a concurrent seat, but I think the Key is either SOFTWARE_CLASS or SingleUse_Installed--with values of Viewer, Editor, Professional.  Also, I think the ESRI_SOFTWARE_CLASS environment variable, if set, can impact things. Stuart ... View more

Sam, Looking at your posts here and on Stack Exchange, I think you have some muddled environment settings. You want to put C:\Python26\ArcGIS10.0 in your system PATH variable, that gets you to the correct executables from IDLE, PythonWin or the command line. Your PYTHONPATH could be empty. Or, you could just include the 3 stanzas of your Desktop10.pth file: C:\Program Files (x86)\ArcGIS\Desktop10.0\bin C:\Program Files; (x86)\ArcGIS\Desktop10.0\arcpy; C:\Program Files (x86)\ArcGIS\Desktop10.0\ArcToolbox\Scripts--those paths will then take precedence over the the default search for modules (below the python.exe or pythonw.exe being called). Finally, since you've uninstalled and installed several versions of Python. At this point, there should be nothing under the C:\Python26 folder except the ArcGIS10.0 folder of the ESRI provided Python 2.6.5 32-bit install. If there is a Lib file there it is a residual of an earlier install and will interfere. It would be a bigger problem if any or your prior Python26 installs were 64-bit. Also, since you're on 64-bit Windows 7, the Registry path the to 32-bit Python keys are HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Python If you have a HKLM\SOFTWARE\Python, they would be Keys for a 64-bit install. They also would interfere with the 32-bit install. Stuart ... View more

Jhightower, So have you tried working with any raster or grid data? The spatial analyst tool bar doesn't manipulate the point and polyline layers that are showing on your screen shot. Stuart ... View more

Matthew, You've given the correct link in your post. Follow the ftp session down into the 2.0.1.15 folder and right mouse on the ArcHydroTools.msi and use "Save link as" (FF, or Save Target as for IE). Download to a good spot on the system. Run the Microsoft Installer: either right mouse --> Install, or launch cmd.exe, navigate to the download folder, and execute "msiexec.exe /I ArcHydroTools.msi /qb" As with any software installation you must have Administrators privilege to do the installation--is that the case in your school lab? When installed, you activate the ArcHydro Tools from ArcMap 10 via [INDENT]Customize --> Toolbars --> ArcHydro Tools [/INDENT] For full function of some tools, you will need to activate the "Spatial Analyst" and "3D Analyst" extensions from the Customize --> Extensions check boxes. Stuart ... View more