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excel reader issue

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June 18, 2025
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pearly1
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anyone know why Im getting these errors. Its an export to excel from gogov. I think the export is a bad file format?

Excel Reader: Failed to open the dataset 'R:\Rubicon FME\GoGOV\Input\**\*.xlsx'. Error message was 'File does not exist'
Excel Reader: Failed to open the dataset 'R:\Rubicon FME\GoGOV\Input\*.xlsm'. Error message was 'File does not exist'
Excel Reader: Failed to open the dataset 'R:\Rubicon FME\GoGOV\Input\report (17).xls'. Error message was 'It is not a xls file. Use the xlCreateXMLBook() for a xlsx file.'
Failed to obtain any schemas from reader 'XLSXR' from 3 datasets. This may be due to invalid datasets or format accessibility issues due to licensing, dependencies, or module loading. See logfile for more information
Workspace generation failed. Parameter file was C:\Users\pearly\AppData\Local\Temp\FME_1750261216546_26960.

Best answer by alexbiz

This file is not an Excel file. Opening it with a text editor show HTML code.

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