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How to backup / export flows?

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Posted on by talormanda 14

Using Windows 11 with version 2.16.00306.22020, there is no way to backup or export flows. If I wipe my computer, how do I get these back? There is no way to save them.

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  • Guriga Profile Picture
    Guriga 188 on at

    Hi, 

    There isn't an integrated backup/export solution.

    The best way right now: 

    Open your flow. Select all the steps CTRL+C.

    Open notepad and CTRL+V. Save it.

     

    In the system, you need to create a new flow and simply just paste the saved steps into the new flow.

     

    Hope the content above may help you.

    Best Regards

    If my answer helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

  • talormanda Profile Picture
    talormanda 14 on at

    That is awful user-experience. What the heck?

  • MichaelAnnis Profile Picture
    MichaelAnnis 5,727 Moderator on at

    I can't imagine that they would have taken this ability away.  It uses the online Power Apps website (which comes with your subscription to office) to Save all flows to a "Solution" on the Power Apps website.  Then you can download them from there should you need to recover.

     

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wfe7yPdGUCE&t=171s

     

     

  • talormanda Profile Picture
    talormanda 14 on at

    I am not using any subscription so I have nothing in the cloud to download or export to.

  • Guriga Profile Picture
    Guriga 188 on at

    You are absolutely right.
    Hopefully, MS give us a better solution in the near future.

  • MichaelAnnis Profile Picture
    MichaelAnnis 5,727 Moderator on at

    no...check out the youtube...no subscription needed.  If you have Power Automate Desktop on your local machine, then you have office and can access the online site with some functionality.  Solutions is one of them.  We don't pay for anything but Office, and I can share my flows with my boss using this method.

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    Yole 17 on at

    seems still doesn't have  a good solution

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