Downloaded file named with tag instead of value

[Marcos_Armando_Abud]

Describe the problem/error/question

Hello, everybody. Hope you all doing well. That’s my first time here, so if I made some mistake, please let me know.

I’m running in my local machine an instance of n8n community version, and I have my workflow to update some data in eazyBI and in the end I download the dashboard.

The problem is with the file’s name when I download. IT works when I hardcoded it, but I want to grab the real file’s name when I download it, but instead I’m getting the binary variable name like {{ $binary.data.fileName }}.

How can I grab the file’s name coming from the data binary file?

PS: I tried also with $json and had the same result.

What is the error message (if any)?

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Information on your n8n setup

• n8n version: 1.95.3
• Database (default: SQLite): SQLite
• n8n EXECUTIONS_PROCESS setting (default: own, main): own, main
• Running n8n via (Docker, npm, n8n cloud, desktop app): npm/desktop app
• Operating system: Windows 11 24H2

[Marcos_Armando_Abud]

I discover how to handle this for now. For Windows, apparently you need to put a forward slash instead of backslash in the path name, like C:\Users\My_User\Downloads/{{ $binary.data.fileName }}

[darrell_tw]

Glad you find it !

The normal way is working in linux but windows is different in the file path