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Pol2all
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Power Query when add a new excel files to a folder and get Error

Hi all, some help needed, once I connect to a folder to select all files (excel with the same structure) into that folder and prepare all transformations it works very well. But if I add a new exce...
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    3 years ago

    hi mahenkj2 

    after read the post on the link shared, that I thank you.

    I've noticed that the problem can be solved just by open and close the EXCEL file, without any change or editing. So, following an example on one of the reply related to the shared post, I've adapt a powershell script, that I run each time that any new files is placed into any subfolder. After I can refresh all in the PowerBI without having the error

     

    $fileList = Get-ChildItem -path "C:\anydirectory" -Recurse| %{$_.FullName}


    $excelComObject = New-Object -COM "Excel.Application"
    $excelComObject.DisplayAlerts = $false

    foreach ($file in $fileList) {
    $file
    $wb = $excelComObject.Workbooks.Open($file, $true, $false)
    $wb.Save()
    $wb.Close()
    }

    $excelComObject.Quit()
    [System.Runtime.Interopservices.Marshal]::ReleaseComObject($excelComObject)
    Remove-Variable excelComObject

     

    Thanks