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When I import the data from folder on file server that has deep folder nest, it returns OLE DB or ODBC error: [DataFormat.Error]. These are many over 200 length path. Anyway I want to analyze file server. How can I read all files, its path, size and others from our file server?
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Data reading was inturrupted when I got the error importing the data from folder.
I use powershell script as below without intrrupting by error.
get-childitem \\fileserver\path -recurse | where-object{! $_.psiscontainer}| select-object
CreationTime,LastAccessTime,LastWriteTime,length, extension,name,directory | export-csv c:\outputfolder\data.csv -encoding UTF8
Hi @Tokimatu
Do you get data from Folder in Power BI Desktop?
It seems your path length is larger than the maximum which it can run with.
Best Regards
Maggie
Yes. I got the data from Folder in Power BI Desktop.
Is there other procedure to get the long path?
Data reading was inturrupted when I got the error importing the data from folder.
I use powershell script as below without intrrupting by error.
get-childitem \\fileserver\path -recurse | where-object{! $_.psiscontainer}| select-object
CreationTime,LastAccessTime,LastWriteTime,length, extension,name,directory | export-csv c:\outputfolder\data.csv -encoding UTF8
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