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I am currently in the process of renaming 187 files in a folder. 54 files were renamed without any issue in the format needed. But the rest of the 121 files do not get renamed. I get the following error:

Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.Modules.SDK.ActionException: Folder doesn't exist ---> System.IO.DirectoryNotFoundException: Could not find a part of the path.
at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath)
at System.IO.File.InternalMove(String sourceFileName, String destFileName, Boolean checkHost)
at Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.Modules.File.Actions.RenameFilesAction.Execute(ActionContext context)
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.Modules.File.Actions.RenameFilesAction.Execute(ActionContext context)
at Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.Robin.Engine.Execution.ActionRunner.Run(IActionStatement statement, Dictionary`2 inputArguments, Dictionary`2 outputArguments)

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ryule 929 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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To troubleshoot, I would recommend creating a list up by your "Get files..." action, and then in your loop, add to the list TextList[6], and see what values you are getting.
I'm wondering if there are some invalid characters or slashes that it is finding?

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It continued to work if I took the renamed files out of the folder and transferred it to a different one and ran the flow again.

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Rename files & its other similar actions are pretty unstable at the moment with for each loops I feel like, just try doing OCR of a file followed by any file action inside one, it won't work.

In your case though I think what might've happened is that it extracted the same name twice, thus you had two files with the same name in the same file and something broke, not 100% sure on that though, its hard to tell as you have to think from File Explorer's perspective on this, not PAD's

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