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Error accessing Excel File "You do not have permissions to open this file in the browser."

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I have a couple power automated flows running on personal account that acess excel files in OneDrive owned by the same personal account. Everythign was running fine until recently (Since Jul 24th 2024) the flow is giving a security error " Status: 401: You do not have permissions to open this file in the browser." 
 
If I open the excel file in my browser and then run the flow it runs just fine.
 
Any help in resolving this would be greatly appreciated as my flows are scheduled flows so keeping an excel file open and active all the time is not practical. 
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    I have the same problem.

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