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Hello, I am currently having a bit of trouble trying to use the copy data activity to move my source (which is a sftp) to grab a zipped excel file, and drop it in my sink(which is a blob storage container) now when I move it it is turning the zipped file into some type of encrypted txt file. I am trying to either preserve the excel file, or transform it into a csv and cannot seem to find a work around
Hi @Adam Fine ,
Hello EvgeniyG,
For compression type I was using ZipDeflate and when I check the preview, it works, however it might be Unicode? I can't tell what kind of encryption it is exactly. I believe that is standard excel when turned to a .txt file. My compression type on my sink is none, I am not sure if I need a compression type for this, I didn't really think of that but it could be possible.
I currently don't have any mappings set for this yet, since I haven't been able to view the data as needed.
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Hi @Adam Fine ,
Welcome to Microsoft Q&A Platform. Thanks for posting the query.
Please let us know if you are able to check encryption as suggested by @Evgeny Grishchenko and if it helped. Kindly suggest your observations for below to investigate further.
Also, please share the file size and number of columns in the file.