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Hi,
I'm trying to get data from a multiple .rar files from a folder,
is it possible to load them in Power Query and open withaut extracting them first?
best regards
Grace
Hi, @graceste ;
if it's a default rar archive it should be possible.
Check the following article, it's a tutorial how to do that:
Reading Zip files in PowerQuery / M (sql10.blogspot.com)
Best Regards,
Community Support Team _ Yalan Wu
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Thanks @v-yalanwu-msft ,
I've checked it already, it doesn't work with rar files, the result I get is an empty column
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