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Posted on by OptimizePrime 3

Hi all, I'm in a bit of a pickle due to what appears to be a bug. I was trying to replace text '/' with '\' and for whatever reason it was throwing a syntax error but the flow itself would run just fine. I closed the PAD Designer and now I can't edit my flow at all as I'm met with this error. 

 

Are we able to see and update the flows in a file on C:\Program Files (x86)\Power Automate Desktop ?

I can't find a downgrade file anywhere to try that <-- tried that, doesn't work.

Flow Checker can't find an issue

 

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    OptimizePrime 3 on at

    To replicate the issue, one can setup a Flow like the one shown below. It does not like the single backsplash '\', it will save with a single forward slash.

     

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    Looks like I'm having to rebuild my flows from scratch as I'm locked out due to this syntax issue blocking me from editing any portion of my flow / subflows

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