ArcGIS: Packaging error - General function failure

Whoa... 2 posts within 2 months...  I'm on a roll baby...   :-)

In today's episode I want to document what I've discovered with the following lovely error when attempting to create a Map Package:









I've had this very insightful (hint:sarcasm) message box pop-up a number of times when trying to create a Map Package.  After much copying/pasting, renaming, re-connecting data sources I finally figured out what the problem was in this particular instance.

This particular map had some DWG files connected to the map, and some of these DWG names contained a special character "#", and also contained extra 'dots' in the name to delimit a date.  For example:
Name#-2013.04.09.dwg
In my testing and trials, removing the '#' symbol did not resolve the issue, and it wasn't until I removed the extra 'dots' in the name that I was finally able to successfully generate the package.  Further testing revealed that the '#' symbol alone does not prevent the package from being created, so it appears the extra 'dots' were the culprit.

So in typical ArcGIS, re: ESRI, fashion, you still need to (in the voice of Elmer Fudd) be vewwwy, vewwwy careful of file name lengths, and the characters you use in file names.

Hope this helps someone, at sometime...

Until next time,
Take care.

Warren M

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