Hi,
I have a workflow where I have to download large excel files from web. I put wait for download and click activity inside, but it still throws error that file is not downloaded (file exists activity). The file size around 50MB. What do I do to make sure the file downloads properly?
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Hi
Hope this would help you resolve this
you can use a Do While loop.
In the do while loop use path exists activity to find whether the file is available. This returns a true or false. Use that variable as the condition for the loop
For more details on the discussion
Cheers @markosc
Once you placed the Wait for Download activity, If you have the file size know then To Ensure it’s fully downloaded
You can do as below
Create a variable for downloaded files, write an assign activity as
FileInKB = downloadedfile.SizeInKB
Which results you the file size in KB
Already you know the file size before so you can compare with that
If you don’t know the file size before, then only way
is While loop and use Path Exists, declare a variable and set condition of while loop as PathExistsVariable <> True
Hope this may help you
Thanks
I did it like this
but don’t know why it throws me an error before it is downloaded. It throws error that it doesn’t exist immediately.
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Hi
Mention the condition as
NOT fileexists
Because only if the condition satisfies it will continue the loop else it will come out
So here until file exists the condition should not get satisfied
Cheers @markosc
Hello Mark,
For downloading large files I have this movie:
Thanks,
Cristian
Be sure to build some sort of timeout within your do while loop.
Should some error occur during download your peocess will wait indefinately (or at least untill some other threshold intervenes.
Doesn’t matter if it is 5 seconds or 5 hours, but prevent the possibility of endless loops.
Something like this which would have a 5 minute timeout:
Of course if the timeout is reached you still want to validate the file’s existence and handle that exception if relevant.
Can we have Wait for Download Activity continue even if it does not find the file as it is throwing an error even in the Try Catch Block. Any solution for this ?
That error is thrown because the time-out is reaches and the file is not yet available.
You can consider increasing the time-out from the properties panel of the Wait For Download activity.
Or
You can try the flow which is shown above in this thread by @Jeroen_van_Loon
Yes, that I know that error is coming coz of timeout.
I am asking if there is no way can have error handling around this.
I used Try Catch but that is also not helping.
I want my bot to continue even if file is not downloaded in the defined timeout.
even I apply Try Catch, it still gives same error.
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