Error overwriting my .TDE output

[WU1993]

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

[cmcclellan]

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

[WU1993]

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 · Accepted solution]

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

Can you create another file in the same folder ?

[WU1993]

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