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Excel update propagation in SharePoint

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Hi All,
I have a flow that will copy an Excel template file from a SharePoint folder to another SharePoint folder (for clarity, the file is actually an .xlsx file not an .xltm file). After copying the template, I fetch a SharePoint List item and update a data row in the new (copied) Excel file. Once that is complete, I add the new file to an array, add the SharePoint item attachments to the array and use the array as attachments to an email.
 
All of this works, however, I need to include a Delay between the Update Row action and the Get Content action that fetches the new file. If I don't add this delay, the new file content is that same as the original template. 
 
So the flow looks like this,
 
As I say, this works, but I don't like a hardcode delay. Is there are way to force the new SharePoint file to update, or is there a way to know when it is ready? If neither, then how long is a safe delay for all cases?
Thanks for looking.
Kevin
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    The update takes a certain amount of time. So your only choices are to hard code a delay, which is the easy way. Or go into a loop and keep checking the file to make sure it updated.  There is no way to force the change to take place immediately.  The delay is the best way to do this.

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    Thank you Pstork1.

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