Odd Error in Metadata Script

Question

So I developed a script that traverses through a root directory, and any subdirectories and catalogs layers files. Then exports these layer files' FGDC metadata and outputs them to a folder. The code at this point is hit/miss sometimes completes and sometimes processes "most" of the input and errors out close to being done.

Can anyone point out what's going on here? Error code is:

File "C:\Program Files (x86)\ArcGIS\Desktop10.2\arcpy\arcpy\conversion.py", line 624, in ExportMetadata raise e

ExecuteError: ERROR 000582: Error occurred during execution.

import arcpy,os 
arcpy.env.overwriteOutput=True 
metadataout=r'C:\tmp\out' 
for dirpath,dirnames,filenames in arcpy.da.Walk(r'C:\folder\files',datatype="Layer"): 
 for filename in filenames: 
 print filename 
 translator = r'C:\Program Files (x86)\ArcGIS\Desktop10.2\Metadata\Translator\ARCGIS2FGDC.xml' 
 arcpy.ExportMetadata_conversion(os.path.join(dirpath,filename),translator,os.path.join(metadataout,str(filename).split(".")[0]+'.xml')) 

Answer 1

The python code for the ESRI Metadata Translator instead of the export command seemed to solve the issue.

• whuber: Somehow this answer automatically got downvoted by the "Community" bot because it is so short. I apologize for that.