Yeah, and its fine to solve your own problems and share that on here so others can benefit.
But I am not sure this topic can provide that benefit since its not clear, at least to me, what you are doing so it wouldnt personally help me.
You mention reading files, but its the wrong ones, but we don’t see how you read them so have no context for understanding the problem, nor the ‘fix’. Its considered solved by you because it recreates the files it tries to read apparently, I assume you are on modern Excel and the property the create a file if it doesn’t exist is on, but as you see I am needing to make alot of guesses.
I encourage you to use the forum, and to share solutions, but consider the detail, it needs to be both detailed enough for us to understand whats going on, but concise enough so we aren’t lost in details.