Hello, I am new to Prefect. I scheduled a flow on prefect cloud. the flow should end up generating an excel report and saving it locally but I never see it. The flow runs successfully, and the timing looks right to generate the file. What I did find was an encoded blob file in my .prefect/storage folder.. is the how my file gets saved?? when I run the flow locally on Orion it outputs the report where I specify.

Are you running your flow through a deployment?

yes I have set up a deployment to run the flow and was able set up a work-queue and agent. I trigger the flow from the UI and it runs fine. in the deployment I have storage set to a local file system with a basepath set. do I need to reference that block in my code?

By default, Prefect saves the output of your flow in a temporary local file system. For now, you will need to specify the path to be absolute in order to save the file in the local directory. I will raise an issue for this and see if we can find a better solution for this

Ok I will give that a shot, thank you for the help I do appreciate it!

I just raised an issue. We are actively looking for the ways to make this less confusing. Thanks for sharing your source of confusion

Just wanted to give an update that the solution you provided worked like a charm. Thank you! I look forward to learning more about Prefect and integrating it as a business solution.