Paths, Paths, and Longer Paths...
Oh those pesky long paths and filenames... It seems I had a brain lock and had forgotten how picky ArcGIS can be with paths and filenames. I must have been having a bad day, because I can usually sleuth these things out, but alas, it was my IT department that was successful in resolving the problems I was having. So needless to say, I was a little embarrassed that I missed this obvious one. What were the problems you ask? Well, I found that I could not preview some GRID data in ArcCatalog. I didn't think that was a big deal as I’ve come across this on occasion and haven’t thought much about it. That was until I went to add this raster GRID to a map and ArcMap reported 'Invalid raster dataset' Huh? What's going on? To make a long story short, the path was too long... If you create a mapped location to a shorter path and voila! The preview works and I was able to add the GRID to a map. Now, besides being extremely f...