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So I have two PC's and I tried to manually move the files from the appdata console folder to the other PC to share the flow as it wasn't showing up on the 2nd pc.

I am at the PAD welcome screen and no flows are showing. Is this a way to recover the flow from the files or?

The files I have are the package, project.manifest, imgrepo, controlrepo, script.robin and pData.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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MichaelAnnis 5,727 Moderator on at

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If you login to Power Automate Online, are your flows there?
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No, these were desktop flows and I don't see them online at all....
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I did make a backup copy of the console folder in the %appdata%\local\Microsoft\Power Automate Desktop folder.
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In the \Workspace subdirectory, do you see script.robin? If so, you can open and copy paste to new flows. I had this happen to me after signing up for a trial of the unattended etc... that was a mistake as when the trial ends, flows created while the trial was active are apparently lost.
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Yes, I do see the script.robin. I opened it with Notepad ++ and tried to copy it and paste it but I'm not sure where to paste the contents. In the main flow screen or ?
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How many subflows did you have? If just main, then yes, paste into a new flow's "Main".
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Thanks. I tried to paste it there but doesn't seem to want to take that type of input. I see the "No actions have been added yet" screen and that's where I'm clicking and trying to paste.... sorry if I'm being really dumb here.
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Oh, and I had a couple of subflows... do I need to parse this file?
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Wow, so I just copied and pasted up until the END statement and it appeared!! This is so awesome!! I thought I was stuck rewriting this for another 40+ hrs. The flow variables are missing but I have a start now. I guess the following sections should be pasted into subflows. I owe ya big time! Thank you so much for the guidance.
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Great news! You're very welcome... and yes -- I don't have the file format in mind, but I do recall now how the subflows work and you're right.