What if a binary file doesn't exist?

Questions
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File not found

When trying to use the Read/Write Files from Disk node, how is one to handle a file not found condition? I tried telling the node to continue, with and with out using the date. It won’t happen often, but a new client will not have a file in the folder specified. If the file doesn’t exist, the workflow could branch to the file creation routine.

I don’t see an obvious way I can branch to the file creation upon a file not found.

Here’s my workflow. It works as is, but it would be nice if it could auto-create the file if it can’t find it. Also, I’m accepting feedback on my process.

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It looks like your topic is missing some important information. Could you provide the following if applicable.

  • n8n version:
  • Database (default: SQLite):
  • n8n EXECUTIONS_PROCESS setting (default: own, main):
  • Running n8n via (Docker, npm, n8n cloud, desktop app):
  • Operating system:
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Hey @russellkg,

That looks like we don’t actually show an error if the file doesn’t exist which could be a bit careless. I think the best thing to do depending on how you are running n8n is use the execute command node to check if the file exists. So something like the below…