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Many thanks. You are right, that file did not have BOM, but some others oddly did, even though I obtained them in the same way. Another mistake I made was trying to read the file as a CSV rather that TXT. I'll note this for future.

Thank you for helping.

... Enabled=INTEGER|-1 Name=STRING|"Set variable ""filename"" with value ""C:\temp\jcap.csv""" Params=FOLDER [Actions\Action1\Params] _rt_variables_produced=STRING|"filename" expand=STRING|"0" linecount=STRING|"1" ...

Just want to add an example. This is how the original string looks like in the CSV file (not sure if this website would display the characters correctly when I post this, but I'll try anyway): "Andrea Muñoz-Gutiérrez, Alma X. González-Morales, L. Á. García, ...

... could suggest which functions to use to replace various accented characters in a string (à, é, ó, č, ñ, etc). The task is to read a string from a CSV file and replace all non-Latin characters listed (no need to work with all existing characters, just the ones that the user encounters in her work, ...

... to BASE64" + New action "Decode from BASE64" + New action "HTTP encode/decode" + New action "Read system events to CSV" + New action "Load process info to CSV" + New action "RoboCopy (copy/synchronize folders)" + New system variable {StartTaskCause} ...

... I finished writing a massive and complex (by my standards) multi-part task involving running several applications, creating and modifying Excel, CSV, TXT and ZIP files, uploading them to SFTP, converting date formats, one tasks calling in other tasks, etc, - about 250 steps in total. And the ...

... DuringMinutes=STRING|"1" DuringMonths=STRING|"1" file0=STRING|"C:\JTL-TMP\Gautzsch\FTP_IN\*.csv" filecount=STRING|"1" OlderDays=STRING|"1" OlderHours=STRING|"1" OlderMinutes=STRING|"1" OlderMonths=STRING|"1" ...

I've already run checkdisk. It's all right. Already restarted the PC. The task normally downloads 1 .csv file via FTP. This is renamed and then checked to see if a file exists. I'm surprised he hangs himself doing this. I have other tasks that also check for files. These ...

... version 9.8.0.45 "Excel" version 9.8.0.79 "Sound Volume" version 9.8.0.60 "DataBase" version 9.8.0.77 "CSV Data" version 9.8.0.11 "Graphics" version 9.8.0.40 "WebSockets" version 9.8.0.40 "Console Application" version ...

Step #10 "Search for files"
Step #11 "if..then" action
Is this correct?

What RoboTask edition do you use: x86 or x64?
Send the system info: menu Help -> system information
How many CSV files in your folder?