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    Shapefiles can't have dashes in the name, change it to an underscore and try again... then when you're done change it back to a dash if you need to. The dash/space restriction only seems to apply to geoprocessing and not to the functionality of the data. You will find a similar problem if you try to create a shapefile with a dash in it; some tools have workarounds, for example should you export (feature class to feature class multiple) geodatabase feature classes with dashes the tool will automatically change the dashes to underscores while exporting. Commented Dec 18, 2018 at 4:59
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    Please always provide errors as text rather than pictures. Commented Dec 18, 2018 at 5:47
  • Are you trying to Define or Reproject the source? The most common error here is confusing these two. If you Define to change the coordinate reference, you corrupt the dataset. Commented Dec 18, 2018 at 6:20
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    From the duplicate's answer: "The problem is with the dash (-) in the shapefile name." Renaming the shapefile to remove the hyphen should quickly verify or refute that. Commented Dec 18, 2018 at 6:31
  • @PolyGeo removing the dash did not help and I get the same error Commented Dec 19, 2018 at 6:08