+22I have a workspace in which I would like to overwrite an existing Excel spreadsheet if it exists - it might or it might not depending on other things. If I leave 'overwrite existing file' set to 'yes', the workspace will fail when it doesn't find an existing spreadsheet. This also happens with file geodatabases.
Perhaps a setting of 'yes - if existing' could be added?
Hi @chrisw84, in my experiences, the Excel writer (at least in FME 2016 and 2017) seems to create a new file successfully if it doesn't exist, even if the Overwrite Existing File parameter is set to "Yes".
With what conditions did the writer fail?
+22Hi @takashi. Any time I have this set to 'yes' and a file does not exist, the process fails citing that it cannot overwrite the destination file. I will have a look and see if I have a log file with this info, but in FME 2016 at least it always fails for me.
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