In the page (https://community.esri.com/thread/111243) there is a bug in the adjoint catchment processing within ArcCatalog/background processing that affects the toolbox tool. Has this been resolved in the ArcGIS 10.0 version 2.0.1.156 which is the latest available on the esri FTP site?
Ok.
Donwloaded and installed v10.2.0.94 and now everything looks like it works on the Student dataset (Exercise2)...my Adjoint Catchments are wghere their supposed to be.
Hmmm.
Thanks for the feedback Mark...hopefully some of this will actually help the initial poster's queries.
Kind of derailed your thread, sorry.
The latest version for ArcGIS 10.2 is 10.2.0.94. Using that version fixed my problem.