Comments on: Death, Taxes and the Esri ArcGIS 999999 Error: How to Fix It https://gisgeography.com/esri-arcgis-999999-error/ Geographic Information Systems Mon, 31 Mar 2025 20:31:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: GISGeography https://gisgeography.com/esri-arcgis-999999-error/#comment-322937 Sat, 09 Mar 2024 12:00:30 +0000 http://gisgeography.com/?p=13206#comment-322937 In reply to dd.

I’ve never heard of that happening before, and I am an FME user. Thanks for sharing!

]]> By: dd https://gisgeography.com/esri-arcgis-999999-error/#comment-322667 Thu, 07 Mar 2024 08:15:08 +0000 http://gisgeography.com/?p=13206#comment-322667 One to add to your list is if your layer geometry column is not called Shape. We have FileGDB layers that have been created via FME so the geometry column has been given a different name. In my case the Summarize Within tool gave me the dreaded 999999 but when I exported the features again thus converting the column name to Shape, the tool worked. I’ve seen this alot with the ESRI products, if it ain’t called Shape it’s going to break!

]]> By: Kierra https://gisgeography.com/esri-arcgis-999999-error/#comment-291173 Wed, 29 Mar 2023 16:29:07 +0000 http://gisgeography.com/?p=13206#comment-291173 Also sometimes you just have to remove the underscores from the name and it will work just fine. I’m not sure why but this has happened to me twice in the past year with two completely different tools. One is Import Access Tables and I cannot remember the other one.

]]> By: Andrew https://gisgeography.com/esri-arcgis-999999-error/#comment-96846 Tue, 09 Jun 2020 13:47:40 +0000 http://gisgeography.com/?p=13206#comment-96846 One to add to your list is if your layer geometry column is not called Shape. We have FileGDB layers that have been created via FME so the geometry column has been given a different name. In my case the Summarize Within tool gave me the dreaded 999999 but when I exported the features again thus converting the column name to Shape, the tool worked. I’ve seen this alot with the ESRI products, if it ain’t called Shape it’s going to break!

]]> By: Deepak https://gisgeography.com/esri-arcgis-999999-error/#comment-79481 Sat, 11 Apr 2020 20:44:27 +0000 http://gisgeography.com/?p=13206#comment-79481 Extremely helpful article. I was able to rectify this unexpected error by applying suggestions numbers 1, 2 and 4. I was performing interpolation on vector data and this error kept on coming. Thank you for this nice article.

]]> By: GISGeography https://gisgeography.com/esri-arcgis-999999-error/#comment-77217 Sat, 04 Apr 2020 10:57:00 +0000 http://gisgeography.com/?p=13206#comment-77217 In reply to Choki Gyeltshen.

It could be a lot of issues. Perhaps, this article can help?

https://gisgeography.com/relate-vs-join-attribute-tables-arcgis/

]]> By: Choki Gyeltshen https://gisgeography.com/esri-arcgis-999999-error/#comment-77195 Sat, 04 Apr 2020 09:17:48 +0000 http://gisgeography.com/?p=13206#comment-77195 I have imported excel table into ArcMap. I related it to a shapefile. Although the relationship has been created, I cannot access the related tablea as it is grayed out.

]]> By: Milena https://gisgeography.com/esri-arcgis-999999-error/#comment-72797 Mon, 16 Mar 2020 13:04:34 +0000 http://gisgeography.com/?p=13206#comment-72797 Very Helpfull article. I was using arcgis then I saw the error:001143 I kind fixed tuning off the backgroug processing, but I just converted to error 9999999. hahaaa! Now I’m going to try to fix it.

]]> By: Siro https://gisgeography.com/esri-arcgis-999999-error/#comment-33934 Wed, 26 Jun 2019 13:20:14 +0000 http://gisgeography.com/?p=13206#comment-33934 I am hitting on this error when trying to export survey123 data to .csv, feature service to shapefile or fgdb etc. I am gutted. If you know of any other solution apart from aforementioned please help.

]]> By: Extractor https://gisgeography.com/esri-arcgis-999999-error/#comment-31543 Tue, 30 Apr 2019 11:53:59 +0000 http://gisgeography.com/?p=13206#comment-31543 Wait, what about death and taxes?

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