text file corrupts after flow

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Hi,

I set up power automate to flow a text file attached on my email and have it saved in the SharePoint folder.

After the text file is saved, the file gets corrupted.

Strangely, I created 1 flow about a month ago and this works fine, and I copied this flow a few days ago for other text files from other senders, and this ends up with the corrupted file after the flow.

Please help me on this???

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v-yetonggu-msft Microsoft Employee on at

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Hi @Needurhelp ，
Could you post your complete flow process and error reasons?

Best Regards,
Sunshine Gu

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Needurhelp 8 on at

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Hi Gu,

Thank you for your response.
Not sure if this answers to your question but the flow process is below:
On new email with attachment=>Apply to each with attachments=>Create file in sharepoint=>Get file content with attachments contents.
I have attached the screenshot of corrupted file.

Best,

There is no error reason appear because the flow is successful.

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Chriddle 8,640 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Your screnshot is a bit blurry, but I'm pretty sure the file content is an image (PNG) 😉

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Needurhelp 8 on at

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Thanks Chriddle.
Is there any way to keep the original content as text file?

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v-yetonggu-msft Microsoft Employee on at

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Hi @Needurhelp ,
Based on your description, I did a test and found no errors.
Could you post a complete screenshot of your flow process? like this.
What do you want to do with the get file content control?
My text file content:
Text file I opened in SharePoint:
Best Regards,
Sunshine Gu

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Chriddle 8,640 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Saving this original file content as a text file does not make sense.

However, you can use text recognition to retrieve the text from the image (if any) and save this as a text file.

See connector Recognize text in an image or a PDF document.

Use the text recognition prebuilt model in Power Automate - AI Builder | Microsoft Learn

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Needurhelp 8 on at

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Hi Gu,
Thank you for your reply.
Below is flow process and the file contents.

When I opened the file, the contents look below.

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