For your Friday enjoyment, here is a motivational poster I created for Tom Vought (@TomVought) and Elliot Hartley (@elliothartley) the other day. Tom had been worried that he was going to spend his day watching ArcMap’s progress bar, which had been at 0% for some time. The processing task he was performing had to do with a selection on census blocks. At one point he mused that he should work in a state that has fewer census blocks, to make his job easier.
I pointed out that there are times when Arc will appear to be working, Â saying “0%”, but it’s actually crashed or is in some way not doing what was expected. He replied, “I think it’s working.”
“I think it’s working” is an apt mantra for the GIS analyst profession in general, and thus the poster was made. I thought I could try to run a process myself in order to get a screen capture of the 0% bar but when I loaded up a project serendipity played in my favor and gave me a spinning wheel when I right-clicked on a layer’s properties, thus the picture of the Cache tab with nothing on it. By the way: Tom tweeted an update 28 hours later to say that his task was 50% complete.
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