How are you reading the excel files? Maybe consider using a FeatureReader with Directory and File Pathnames Reader (safe.com)

Using the path_windows or path_windows_directory and if you use another FeatureReader to read excel, be sure to accumulation - merge intitator and result.Then I think you might rename this to filecopy_source_dataset before the File Copy writer

thx for the answer but i think my description wasnt the best at all.....my colleagues putting excel files into a fixed folder: (source) when workbench is started the reader read the folder and takes all *.xls files ! (normal excel reader)....the format attribute fme_basename i take with..........

then a tester checks if the basename includes "PA7"...........if the file does some transformers will make a split a write some excel files........the last action in the navigator is the filecopywriter which moves ALL excel sheets from the source folder into also a fixed folder (done).....

i want to be sure that the filecopywriter only move the files which had the fme_basename correct.....

perhaps play around with replacing the Reader <all> with the above suggestion of feature reader with Directory and File Path reader format.

add another feature reader and do exactly what the Reader <all> was doing. The feature reader has many additional options such as attribute handling = Merge Intitator and Result... this will keep the windows_path attributes. Under Generic you can expose attributes