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Cannot upload my file - keep on getting the error, "Invalid file formatError: invalid format" but I've checked that my file is XLS. Is there another way to view a more specific error for the file type?

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Trifacta_Alumni
Alteryx Alumni (Retired)

A general workaround would be to convert the XLS to CSV and then load the CSV.

 

Regarding the root cause, this may have multiple reasons why you see the observed symptoms:

  1. Not really a XLS flie, some applications such as Salesforce create HTML files and relabel them as XLS.
  2. Corrupt XLS file, row count can't be >65536.
  3. Complex formatting (filtering) and referencing may cause similar issues
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Thanks for your feedback!