ArcGIS Mosaic to New Raster

I've noticed a little 'gotcha' with the new Mosaic to New Raster command in ArcGIS 10...

I do like the new quasi background processing in ArcGIS 10, but the indicator in the status bar seems a little quirky at times, and during a long running process like the Mosaic to New Raster command it seems particularly problematic. Fyi, James Fee's GIS Blog also talks about some of the UI quirks in ArcGIS 10.

When the command is running, the progress indicator starts up, but then it will just go blank for long periods of time.

Is the process completed? Is it still working?

Well, it turns out that it is indeed still working away in the background, however, there is no visual indication of this. If you watch close, you might notice every once in a while you will see the progress indicator start scrolling again for a couple seconds, but then will disappear again?

Finally, after some time, which will depend on the size of raster data you are mosaicing, the completed message will pop-up.

I'll have to pay closer attention to this to see if this is an issue with all long running processes.

Until next time,
Take care.

Warren

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