Disaster when Move File to a destination folder which was not exist

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The Move File activity will not work well if the destination folder is not exist, will it?
When I used Move File activity, I didn’t create the destination folder. After running, the files were moved into a “file” that cannot be opened. How can I open the destination file or folder?

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SAI is the name of my destination folder

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Hey @Marginalizer

Kindly create the folder if it not exist before moving.

Thanks
#nK

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Do you know how to recover the files in the “SAI”?

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Hey @Marginalizer

What happened to that directory ?

Is that created or there is some issue ?

Kindly let us know more details on that to check if that can be recovered.

Thanks
#nK

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I want to move the files to the folder “SAI” using “Move File” activity, but I didn’t create this folder before the this activity. After running the program, “SAI” was created but it was not a folder. It can be opened with Acrobat. It is the last file that was moved form the original folder. I think the other files were lost.

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Yes @Marginalizer

Kindly as discussed please create folder before Move.

I mean you need to handle the above in automation.

Thanks
#nK

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Is there ant way to recover the lost files?

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Nope. sorry @Marginalizer

I’m not sure of it.

Thanks
#nK

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i assume the file was of pdf type , so the file name before you ran your code was “SAI.pdf”
currently after moving the filetype is nothing , just try to rename the file to “SAI.pdf” and try to open , it may work , Before doing this keep backup of the “SAI” file in another place so that if my solution fails then we can search for more ways of recovery

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