Read File, Error path not working

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Describe the problem/error/question

When the file exist : ok.

When the file doesnt exist : workflow stop and does not take the error path…

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1.72.1 / self hosted

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Hey @presta_melt,

This is an odd one but it is intentional that we don’t output an error if a file doesn’t exist, What you can do to work around this is enable the option to always output data then check if $json exists so your workflow might look something like the quick example below.

We could look at adding an error option for no files found as well if you think that would be useful to have.

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TY

Sure a file that doesn’t existe- should raise an error…

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