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Error overwriting my .TDE output

WU1993
7 - Meteor

I am running a workflow that I run every month, and for some reason this month I am returning an error that is as follows

 

'The file "Y:blank\blank\blank\.tde" could not be overwritten.'

 

 

This is my only error. I checked online and the file is very small and nothing has been changed within the workflow. Anybody else ever experience this before?

 

Thanks,

 

ML

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cmcclellan
13 - Pulsar

If Tableau has the file open at the same time, you won't be able to replace it.

WU1993
7 - Meteor

Yeah -- I made sure that the .tde file was closed and it still won't overwrite. This morning I actually made a note to make sure I ran the workflow before anything else was open (even outlook) :) and it still failed.

 

Interesting problem here.

 

Thanks,

 

ML

cmcclellan
13 - Pulsar

Hmmm .... check the permissions on the file, the network drive works, etc...

 

Can you create another file in the same folder ?

WU1993
7 - Meteor

Thank you! So.. what happened was IT did some cleaning of our network drives and the drive I was outputting the .tde extract to was modified to "Read-Only". When this happened, it made the overwriting impossible under my account ID.

 

Thanks for mentioning the access privileges as this helped my team at work with other Read-only issues as well.

 

All is good! Thanks for your help.

 

ML

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