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Posted on 3 Aug 2020 13:54:59 by Community Power Pla...

I have a flow to take a PDF attachment from my Outlook Inbox, and save it to a SharePoint library with the "Create a file" action.

Similar to this user's flow:

https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Building-Flows/Flow-to-save-document-in-SharePoint-and-extract-metadata-from/m-p/192085#M19845

However, when the file is saved it is corrupted. I get the "Hmm...looks like this file doesn't have a preview we can show you" message, with a button to download the file. When I download, it throws a "failed to load" error in the browser, and the downloaded version is not openable either.

Any help?

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Community Power Pla... on 03 Aug 2020 at 14:05:06

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Re: Saving PDF Email Attachment to SharePoint - Corrupted

Nevermind - resolved. It was a stupid error.
I was using the "Attachments Content" field from my trigger (When an email arrives) rather than from my "Get Attachments" action.
Once I changed it it worked properly.

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