I have 2TB of available storage on my Dropbox account, but am unable to open a ZIP file (approx. 3.2GB) -- instead, I'm getting an error message that says "Couldn't extract files. Can only handle files up to 512 MB." Any thoughts on how best to resolve this? Thanks.
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I actually CAN'T download a file onto my local computer because there is no fixed Internet where I live (center of Chicago) and I am forced to use cell data for everything. So that solution doesn't work for me. Especially as I would have to download and then upload the uncompressed data afterwards. Just one file would kill off my entire quota of transfer for the month.
I get the same error message - no useful information, no details as to why. I'm personally trying to extract a 1.3GB zip file and wonder if there is a hidden max file size. If so, why is it not made clear in the error?
I'm unsure how to do this but I have probably a couple hundred or so files to go through for data and I'm unsure how to easily extract the data from them onto one sheet. Luckily, each sheet only has one tab of data so my hope was to create a process that could take each sheet and put onto a new single sheet with each excel file it's pulling being a tab on the new sheet. I've put a basic format below which I hope will help explain what I'm trying to do. Additionally, If I can only extract sheets from one folder that's fine too. Just need to speed up the process by any means.
Strangely I was getting an error earlier and it would only pull one file but I found a reference online and managed to get it to work although I still hit a row limit on imported data. Thanks for your help
If you are using Power Query, the tab name is not important because you can get the first sheet everytime. The key to Power Query (cloud or non-cloud) is that the columns are named the same and in a consistent format.
So I ran into a problem where it turns out besides each sheet being named differently. They also named each tab in said sheets differently as well so I haven't been able to import everything besides a single sheet. Additionally, each file seems to have on average 70k rows of data and I believe the limit is 100k? Any ideas how to work around this and pull with a filter as well?
In the middle of the night, I receive 4 separate inline html tables of data by email. With Power Automate I turn that data into four separate csv files and save in a folder OneDrive or SharePoint. At the end of this automation, I then use the Power Automate action "Refresh a dataflow".
That dataflow is essentially Power Query (in the cloud) and I take the 4 csv files in that folder, combine them, do other things and save the data in dataverse table. Dataflows lives in Power Apps but is the cloud version of Power Query.
I did not know that was an option. I just figured power automate since I've used it in the past to automate other things and figured it was the easiest way. I'll try it out and see if it works. Thanks
For clarification: Power Query inside or outside of Power Automate does not require your data to already be in tables; that's the really benefit here, mass file processing of range data and your data will come back as a single collection of data. It could be a csv, excel data, or actual table inside excel or in dataverse but regardless it is available downstream in automation.
Regardless of the method you choose to do it exactly as you described you will need a good understanding in power automate desktop or visual basic. Both of these can handle the no tables and changes in the worksheets.
So essentially open a blank workbook and Get Data from folder. Here you can combine all the files from a folder. You can also do this from other folders, etc, etc, etc. and then you can easily combine all excel sheets into a single table of data to use in automation projects.
Now if you need to do this in automation, again ask yourself why you need it, you can get data with dataflows and do this in the cloud. Then when you combine sheets you can save the output in a dataverse table and use in automation.
I'm working on a project where the data source comes in daily as a zipped file. Is anybody able to show me how to unzip a file within my workflow? Alternatively, can I use a zip file within my workflow? I'm unsure if Alteryx would be able to work with that as an input when building out the workflow.
Thank you, this thread looks like the answer to my question. However, I am having a difficult time understanding where I need to make changes to fit my use case? I'm relatively new to using Alteryx and am pretty lost trying to understand the workflow.
The file you have attached is a batch macro. Usually what happens with something like this is that you have it saved to a macro repository and then you can drop it in a workflow like you would any other tool. This one looks like it is built for downloading of the zip file first. Do you already have your zip file? So if you already have a zip file in some sort of repository, you should be able to use chunks of this workflow to do the work. you are looking to do. pretty much the second half. Also it looks like it uses 7zip, so you will need that as well.
I think I'm following what you're saying. I do already have the zip file although, that in itself is a bit of a problem. Right now, the zip file is sent to me via email daily. I think use Power Automate to take that attachment from the email and drop it onto a shared drive. From there, I'd want Alteryx to pick up that zipped file in the workflow. I'm assuming the second half of the workflow does that for me.
Let's revisit this when you get back. I am unfamiliar with power automate, but I did some quick searching and it seems you can unzip with that tool. If you are already familiar with how it works, maybe having the process that saves the zip file also unzip it, might be a worthy solution as well.
Happy Tuesday! I'm back from much needed vacation and would be happy to revisit this topic. I did some initial research to unzip files through Power Automate but it struggled to push the file to a shared drive.
To anyone still following this. There was a little more to the process that we had to go through. We were able to answer the original question, which was, "Can we unzip a file with Alteryx?" Yes you can. You need to utilize command line. The links above show how to do that. We also worked through using the directory tool to find the unzipped folder and extract the files from that.
How exactly are you extracting the files? Are you using the command-line or the GUI? Are you dragging the files or selecting them and using the extract function? Are you using the shell-extension context-menu?
If you enter a destination folder and then select the extract function or use the shell-extension, then they do not extract to a temporary folder first, they extract directly to the destination.
If they didn't use the filesystem, decompression would happen in memory. Under low memory conditions, or for large compressed files this would sooner or later exhaust available memory and start the process of memory paging.
Paging under these circumstances would be a lot slower than just using the filesystem because the file is still being decompressed (and page files keep being added), but also because as the file is being decompressed, it is being checked for errors and there's as such a lot of read/write operations. The worst thing that can happen to a page file.
EDIT:Regarding the use of a temporary directory, this is so to follow many operating system guidelines. If the decompression fails, there's no guarantee the program performing the operation cleans up after itself. It may have crashed for instance. As such, no residual file remains in your target directory and the operating system will dispose of the temporary file when it sees appropriate.
Now, you might know that your filesystem might have enough space, however the application does not. What if that filesystem is in use by the OS or another application and gets filled up while decompressing?
Not being a 7-zip or WinRAR developer, my comments here are purely speculation. That being said, using temp space to unpack to until everything is complete help to verify that all of the files are intact (i.e. that the zip is not corrupted).
There is nothing worse than unpacking a large compressed file, having started working on files at the beginning of the archive; only to find out that something is corrupted at the end of the archive. At that point you lose confidence in everything.
My last comment is that I don't recall seeing this behavior from 7-zip. When I right click and say extract here, I generally have access to the files as they are being unpacked. Have you double checked that it isn't a setting somewhere?
I have a customer setting up a driver respository for their standard platforms. They need the drivers in the repository to be in sys/inf format for automatic builds on the target platforms. The Intel chipset driver is only available as an exe. Is there a way to get the inf type driver files from the exe?
-A Extracts the INF files and Readme to either "C:\Program Files\Intel\InfInst" or the directory specified using the '-P' flag. The software will NOT install these INF files to the system. This flag can be combined only with the '-P' flag. All other options will be ignored if the '-A' flag is
I have been googling same topic and found a quick way to extract files from .exe file. You just open the "INF_allOS_9.x.y.z" with 7-Zip -zip.org/ -zip.org/ and "extract the files/folders" from 7Zip or drag and drop all of the files/folders to your desk top etc.. Hope this helps other folks who search for same topic.
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