Google Drive appends .txt to my *.md file

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I take notes on a Kindle Scribe and want to automate adding them to my Google drive.

When you send your note file from the Scribe to Amazon, Amazon sends a message reporting that you’ve send them a file and they allow you to download two version of the document: a PDF and an OCR’d TXT file.

My script works mostly. I forward the message from Amazon to a Make.com webhook email. My script then retrieves the two separate files and saves them to folders on my Google Drive.

  • The PDF save works fine, probably because GD realizes I’m sending a PDF.

  • But the text file does not. My goal is to save the document to my Obsidian folder, so I want the file to have an .md (markdown) extension. But what I’m getting is this:

filename.2024.03.05.md.txt

In the Google Drive “upload a file” module, I’ve specified the new filename:

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The lightbulb text below the file name notes that I don’t need to include the extension, but I want to include the extension because I want the file to be saved with the .md extension.

This might be a Google drive issue that Make.com can’t fix but if there is a way to prevent the .txt from being appended to my filename, that would be great.

Thanks,
Adam

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Remove the .md from your “New File Name” field (which does not allow file extension – see the description below)

For the file field, split it into the “Map” option, and there you can insert the file name with extension of choice.

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That works perfectly. Many thanks!

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