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Flow renames file only once and then replaces them

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I have below from which downloads attachment (picture) from email and saves it to folder on One Drive. Because I already have the same filename there, before saving, I rename the old picture and add timestamp to it, then save it to the same directory. This happens OK for the first time.

concat('/Email attachments/','filenamehere',utcNow(),'.png')

But next time the flow rename the original picture from email but instead of renaming it to a new file, it replaces the old rename file which already had timestamp.

So it keep adding new files because the timestamp is different than the file renamed 5 minutes ago.

Hope it's clear.

Thanks.

EDIT:

I understand it like when I am selecting the file to rename in the flow I have to select specific file to which the workflow probably assigns a hash code and stick with it no matter the filename. I will try to put there expression instead of specific file.

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manuelstgomes 6,625 on at

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HI @jakub_

Try doing everything in one step. In the create file, you can add the name you want to the file so that you can rename it with the timestamp directly. No need to move since all files you create are unique.

Also, instead of a timestamp, you can add a random number to ensure that you always have a unique file.

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jakub_ 14 on at

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I can try it but as I understand it I would not have a file without timestamp. The file is a picture and this picture is linked to a PP presentation so if I don't keep the latest file with filename without timestamp the link to PP will not work.

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