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Gateway file system access suddenly stopped working. "The specified gateway does not exist."

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I have flows that save files to folders in our file systems.  These flows stopped working this morning.

 

To troubleshoot, I created a test flow that just lists files in folder, and I created a new file system connection to be used by the flow.  It gives me this error:

Could not connect to your data gateway. Make sure your file system is active with the gateway running.  The detailed error is 'The specified gateway does not exist.'

 

It's saying that the gateway does not exist, but I have been using it for years.  Checking the gateway status in admin center, it says the gateway is online.  Name did not change.

 

I also tried restarting the gateway.  I tried different file systems, different credentials.  Nothing works so far.

 

Weird thing is that our Power BI uses the same gateway and is able to access some files in the file system while the flows can't.

 

Feeling a bit helpless.  Anyone has ideas?

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    Never mind.. I left it aside and worked on something else for a couple hours, then I came back to see it started working again.  Very confusing.

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