Intermediate files when running index

[stev-0]

I am running the index command and it seems to be saving intermediate files into hdfs://user/filename. However spatialhadoop2 is looking for it in hdfs://user/my.username/filename. This is occuring at edu.umn.cs.spatialHadoop.operations.FileMBR.fileMBRMapReduce(FileMBR.java:252). This could well be something to do with the hadoop setup, but thought I would raise this here in case not.

[stev-0]

I temporarily solved this by adding the full absolute path (e.g. outputPath = new Path("/user/myusername/"+inFiles[0].getName()+".mbr_"+(int)(Math.random()*1000000)); to line 334 of FileMBR,java, but this obviously isn't a generic solution.

[aseldawy]

SpatialHadoop uses the current working directory to place these intermediate files. This is typically the home directory of the user running the command. I don't understand why it tried to save to /user/filename instead of /user/username/filename. Did you change the default settings of the current working directory?