Hi Christine,

 

I agree with you that the most likely problems is the record length issue.

 

One way to deal with it would be to open the DBF file related to the shape file in a program like Excel, and then delete columns you don’t care about (and you could verify that there are lots of large columns in there as well).  If you have access to other utilities to resize the columns may be good too.

 

Our FME product (of which the UT in MapInfo is a subset) could also be used to give you control over the output schema – the Workbench in FME would be able to do that easily – free eval from www.safe.com .

 

Good luck.

 

 

Dale

 

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> Hi all,

>

> I'm having trouble converting some shapefiles to tab files and don't

> know why.  I am able to convert some of them no problem, but others are

> failing.  I printed out a sucessful log and failed log to compare the

> difference and everything seems to be running fine until the translator

> tries to open the convert tab file.  Below is the error message.

>

> MapInfo file 'F:\IHA Teams\MapInfo\Public\Mapping Projects\Public

> Health\Mosquito\CDC_SENS_OKHR_arc.tab' could not be opened.  Check that

> file path name is valid.  Also check for adequate disk space. Also

> ensure that the total record length for all the attributes is less than

> 4096 bytes

> FME Session Duration: 16.8 seconds.

>

>

> Program Terminating

>

> Translation FAILED.

>

> There is enough disk space, and I think the file path name should be

> right, so I'm thinking it must be the total record length is more than

> 4096 bytes.  Does anyone know how to check this, or have any other

> thoughts on why the translation isn't working?  Thanks in advance!

>

> Christine

 

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