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annaRu1
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9 months ago
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Connecting a network drive to Power BI

Hello, I've been struggling with connecting a network drive from my organization to Power BI. I am using 'Folder' connector. I need to retrieve a file from this drive based on two conditions: the ...
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  • lbendlin's avatar
    lbendlin
    9 months ago

    A folder needs to be addressed by its full name, like 

     

    \\server\share

     

    Can you confirm that you have that? And that you can access the folder from your file explorer?

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lbendlin
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9 months ago

A folder needs to be addressed by its full name, like 

 

\\server\share

 

Can you confirm that you have that? And that you can access the folder from your file explorer?

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annaRu1
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9 months ago

This worked, thank you. 🙂

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    lbendlin
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    9 months ago

    In your Power Query code sort the files by Last Modified date descending and then grab the binary from 

    [Content]{0}

     

    which always gets you the newest file.