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Posted on by 80

Hi all,

 

I want to ask that are the flows, actions and temp variable storage store in my local PC and non of that store in cloud or online?

Will it pass my data to online processing then send it back to the flow?

 

Thanks a lot!

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  • Srini007 Profile Picture
    3,327 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

    HI @R_KW 

     

    Your PAD Flows will store in your personal One Drive account, not on your Local PC

    For more information on requirements you can refer to below link

     

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-automate/desktop-flows/requirements?WT.mc_id=M365-MVP-4029057

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-automate/desktop-flows/governance

     

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  • Agnius Bartninkas Profile Picture
    Most Valuable Professional on at

    All of your PAD flows are stored in the cloud. If you have anything local, it's usually just a cached copy. All your variable values are also sent to the cloud, unless you specifically mark the variables as sensitive (you need to do this for each variable individually).

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  • R_KW Profile Picture
    80 on at

    Thanks for Answering!

    What will be happened If I marked the variables as sensitive?

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    Srini007 Profile Picture
    3,327 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

    Hi @R_KW 

     

    Refer to the below documentation in that Sensitive Variables

     

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-automate/desktop-flows/manage-variables

     

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  • trice602 Profile Picture
    15,402 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

    Hi @R_KW ,

     

    If you mark variables as sensitive, they will not show up in the log files.

     

     

  • R_KW Profile Picture
    80 on at

    Thanks a lot!!

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