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Hello all,

I have used PowerAutomate's "Save Outlook.com email attachments to your OneDrive" template to set up email attachments to be saved to OneDrive.

It works well up to the point where the files are saved to OneDrive, but when I try to open the saved files (mostly PDFs), I get an error message and cannot open them.

The same error appears when I download/save the file to my PC and then open it.

When I check the attachment from my Outlook email, I can open it with no problem.

Is anyone else experiencing similar symptoms?

Also, if you have a solution to this problem, please let us know.

Thank you in advance.

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VishnuReddy1997 2,656 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Hi @Zaji_554 ,

I have tried the same but for me its working.Please find the below solution.

Code:
Outlook.Launch Instance=> OutlookInstance Outlook.RetrieveEmailMessages.RetrieveEmailsAndSaveAttachments Instance: OutlookInstance Account: $'''vishnuvardhan.reddy@acme.com''' MailFolder: $'''Inbox''' EmailsToRetrieve: Outlook.RetrieveMessagesMode.Unread MarkAsRead: True ReadBodyAsHtml: False SubjectContains: $'''PDF attachment''' SaveAttachmentsInto: $'''C:\\Users\\OneDrive\\Desktop\\Power Automate Desktop\\Practice\\Outlook''' Messages=> RetrievedEmails

Can you provide the screenshot of your flow.

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Zaji_554 12 on at

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Hi, @VishnuReddy1997

Thank you for your reply,

I will show you the code, following below,

and, the error message, is following below :

thank you for your help,

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VishnuReddy1997 2,656 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Hi @Zaji_554 ,

Please find the solution.Try to replicate the same.

NOTE: Please try with Different PDf once.

Next time when your Posting Power Automate cloud related Post,Please Post in Cloud Community.
link: https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Building-Flows/bd-p/BuildingFlows

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Zaji_554 12 on at

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Hi, @VishnuReddy1997
Thank you for reply, I'll try your advice.
When it doesn't work, I will post it in the guided community.

Many thanks,

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