The file is lost from post request after reopening postman

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Firstly I have created Request with file

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The request worked.
The API responds 200
after Closing and opening the postman again, The postman UI shows that the file exist but in case of sending the request I am getting Error from the API that the request is without file.
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The same issue is actual in case if duplicating the request.

Copied version the UI is shown that the file exist but in case of sending the request I got an error from the server that the file is missing

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Have anyone come across with this issue or it is from the API (( ?

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I think, either the file is not getting posted on the API or possibility that some changes made to the API (which is rare) after your successful response.

Also, is there a check on type of file on your API server? Can you share some more information please?

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Yeah there is a check on file extension but the system shows that file does not exist, it means that postman didn’t send the file(it sends null instead)

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This is quite unpredictable as I am just thinking about different possibilities, can you share some more information?

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I come across to this issue for a long time, and finally I found the issue cause.
Thanks for your Time and Effort
The cause was as I select files from my local directory and didn’t put them in the postman’s root folder for files.

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I encountered the same problem too. Thanks for the tip to put the files into postmans root folder. Weird though that this happens.