Siri Shortcuts creates copies of files unintentionally

[Flixmac]

Hi everyone, this is a great forum and thanks to the hosts for their excellent work.

I was trying out Siri Shortcuts lately and it‘s a great tool. One problem I could not solve so far:

I log my working hours in a numbers sheet. My Siri Shortcut is as folllows for now: it copies the current date and time into the clipboard, then it opens the dialog where I can pick a file, which then gets handed over to the „Open with“ dialog. The problem is that as it opens in numbers it creates a copy of the file instead of opening the original file for editing.

Does anyone know how to solve this?

Thanks in advance,
Felix

[RosemaryOrchard]

Unfortunately there is no way to open an existing file in an app without making a copy that I know of. I would suggest you use the open app action instead and then get the file.

[Flixmac]

Thanks for the blazing reply.