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ERROR PAD "LaunchAndOpenUnderExistingProcess"

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Hello Community,

 

When running a flow in Power Automate Cloud, with "Run a flow built with for Power Automate Desktop" it gives me the following error,

 

Problem executing the "LaunchAndOpenUnderExistingProcess" action. Could not open Excel document ".xls" (Error related to a file).
Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.Modules.SDK.ActionException: Could not open Excel document ".xls" (File related error). ---> System.IO.FileNotFoundException: documentPathSafe
at Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.Modules.Excel.Actions.ExcelActions.<>c__DisplayClass10_0.<LaunchExcel>g__SetActiveWorkbook|1()
at Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.Modules.Excel.Actions.ExcelActions.LaunchExcel(Variant documentPath, Variant varPassword, Variant& excelInstance, Int32 launchMode, Boolean visible, Boolean loadAddInsAndMacros, Boolean needsAuthentication, Boolean readOnly, Boolean launchInNewInstance)
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.Modules.Excel.Actions.LaunchExcel.Execute(ActionContext context)
at Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.Robin.Engine.Execution.ActionRunner.Run(IActionStatement statement, Dictionary`2 inputArguments, Dictionary`2 outputArguments)

 

How can I solve that?

 

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But when running in Power Automate Desktop, it runs fine.

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