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Office 365 attachment to onedrive for business/SharePoint

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Posted on by Sgeater01 5

Hi,

I have seen a number of people with a similar issue & some solutions given, but they don't seem to fix the issue for me.

 

Please see my simple flows below; they both work but I can't open the files as they end up corrupted somehow. This is the same if I try to save the attachment to one drive for business or SharePoint. I have had chunking both on and off. Any Ideas?

 

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    tom_riha 10,187 Most Valuable Professional on at

    Hello @Sgeater01 ,

    try to apply the base64toBinary(...) expression on the 'Content Bytes'/'Attachments Content' when using it as the 'File Content'. The attachments from emails have sometimes different encoding than SharePoint/OneDrive expects and encoding them to binary might help.

    And you're using fixed file name with .xlsx extension, is the email attachment really an Excel file? And is it only one attachment?

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    Sgeater01 5 on at

    Thanks @tom_riha Your advice worked. I'm very grateful.

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