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One of my PAD Flows just disappeared on me.
It was about 50 subflows with about 100 actions each.
I am using a personal free account.
My PAD is already updated to the latest version.
I did not delete the flow.
Is there any way to recover it?
Try login to PAD with your email and it should show up
@Ankesh_49
I tried logging out and then logging in with my email and it is still not showing my flow.
Try searching it PAD console and see if you can locate it.
Or if you can access power automate cloud, goto desktop flows tab and see if you can locate it. As the flows automatically gets saved to Microsoft account login I guess
I found a file in my OneDrive folder that looks like it was last updated today (which is when I was using it last):
When I opened the file in NotePad though, it's just a huge file of letters and numbers:
Does anyone know if this file has anything that can help me recover my lost PAD flow?
@pjwilson1987 Great news!! However, I thought you had already tried it.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-automate/desktop-flows/getting-started-msa
Anyways. All's well that ends well.
Hope it helps!!
Cheers,
Ankesh
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Looks like my flows do not get automatically saved in PAD Cloud.
Probably because it's a free account.
And I was unable to locate using the PAD console.
How do I open this back up file of my flow in PAD?
Hi,
trie to copy paste the data in Notepad to your flow.
This is how i am sharing my flows.
This is a good way to save them too.
Thanks @XRQ57. I am aware of the copy/paste from Notepad.
This back up file in OneDrive does not work like that though so I was wondering why does PAD automatically save a back up file in my personal OneDrive (because I am using my Microsoft account) if you cannot do anything with the file.
PAD saves those files for "its" internal purpose and not for opening in the PAD editor.
Right now the model of sharing/re-using PAD flows is via the Cloud Flows.
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