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I created a flow to get an email attachment but the size of attachment changes from 168 kb to 439 bytes. how to  fix that in microsoft flow. ??

 

 

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    RobElliott 10,539 Super User 2026 Season 2 on at

    I've done a few of tests and found that the size of the attachment in the email was more than when I looked at the result in Windows Explorer! I don't know the reason for that or why it would be opposite to what you found, but there's no way in Flow to correct it. It's presumably something to do with the encoding either in the email or in Windows or both.

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    v-bacao-msft Microsoft Employee on at

    Hi @Anonymous ,

     

    Could you share a screenshot of the Flow configuration?

    Basically, Flow gets the attachment content first, and then creates a file at the destination. There is a transcoding process in the middle, so the file size may change, but the content of the file will be preserved.

     

    You could configure Flow by referring to the screenshot below.

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    Best Regards,

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