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Weird issue flow works but creates random folders on sharepoint

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Hi Guys,

 

I am a newcomer to Power Automate. So quite probably I'm doing something wrong. I have created a flow to capture an excel  file that's sent daily to me. 

 

I want to capture the file, store it in a folder and overwrite it each day. I have named the file as the same system sends lots of different reports from the same email address. 

 

Its working, i.e overwriting the file each time. But, its also creating random folders on SharePoint with the other reports. see below

 

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My flow is here

 

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Where am I going wrong?  Thanks

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    Community Power Pla... Microsoft Employee on at

    I seem to have worked out what the issue was. I had an old test flow running, and it seems there was a clash and it was forcing system to create the folder issue 

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