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1. Open with Notepad and Save as UTF-8 format

When selecting a file we get BLOB is not a valid UTF-8 string

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1. Open with Notepad and Save as UTF-8 format

The most common cause for this is importing a file that is not a CSV (for example, importing an Excel format file). Check you're importing a CSV. If that doesn't solve it, try the steps below.

1. Open with Notepad and Save as UTF-8 format

The simplest way to fix this is to open with windows notepad, then select File > Save As - Next ot the SAVE button, select "UTF-8" from the encoding picklist and then SAVE.

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Updated at July 27th, 2024