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I lost all my flows from Power Automate Desktop after restarting my system

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Hi All,

I was learning Power Automate Desktop and created almost 30 to 40 flows using Free Trial of PAD. Today, I worked with Excel in my flow and somehow, after the bot run, the Excel showing it is only available for Read-only and can Notify the other user who is working on it. But there are no other users working on it, and it is available only in my local folder not connected to any other drives. Then to avoid this issue, i wanted to restart my system (Note: In task manager, there is no EXCEL.EXE running to do 'end task' there). After restart, I opened my PAD. BOOM... NO FLOWS AVAILABLE. 
I am basically UiPath and Automation Anywhere developer. So, I just looked my entire system for .paf files. I found nothing. But finally, after going through some research, I could find meta and file type files with some randomly tokenized filenames in my one-drive > Apps > Graph folder. Attaching for reference.

I kindly request you all to assist me on this. I have to complete my learning asap. Thanks for understanding.
 
Regards,
Latha Mangeshkar Naviri
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