Change source path in batch Job in global variable in data services

Hi Experts,
my organization has created job in data services 3.2 to cleanse the data reading from excel flat files. the folder path was store in the global variable(I think) and now they have changed the directories hence is it throwing me below error.
Error, Input file does not exist please confirm existence and restart job, 16 ) >
failed, due to error <50316>: <>>> Error, Input file does not exist please confirm existence and restart job>. I want to update the folder path. I am sure it would be easy but I am very new to BODS.
(12.2) 07-15-14 16:10:08 (14232:12656) PRINTFN: > 'JOB DEBUG' : '>>> Sleeping for 35.000000 seconds... '
(12.2) 07-15-14 16:10:43 (14232:12656) PRINTFN: > 'JOB DEBUG' : '>>> Waking up...... '
(12.2) 07-15-14 16:10:43 (14232:12656) PRINTFN: > 'JOB DEBUG' : 'Starting the timer loop number 6...'
(12.2) 07-15-14 16:10:43 (14232:12656) WORKFLOW: Work flow <WF_Metadata_Files> is started.
(12.2) 07-15-14 16:10:43 (14232:12656) PRINTFN: > 'JOB DEBUG' : '>>> $G_FILENAME_IN : ALL_Metadata_SALES.xls...'
(12.2) 07-15-14 16:10:43 (14232:12656) PRINTFN: > 'JOB DEBUG' : '>>> looking for input file name
\\infra\finance\production\sales\Metadata\ALL_Metadata_SALES.xls'
(12.2) 07-15-14 16:11:08 (14232:12656) PRINTFN: > 'JOB DEBUG' : '>>> Input file Name is '
(12.2) 07-15-14 16:11:08 (14232:12656) PRINTFN: > 'JOB ERROR' : '>>> Error, Input file does not exist please confirm existence and restart job'
I want to update the folder path\\infra\finance\production\sales\Metadata\ALL_Metadata_SALES.xls to \\Home\BIData\finance\production\sales\Metadata\ALL_Metadata_SALES.xls
when i investigated WF_Metadata_files i saw there is a global called INPUT_DIR i assume I have to change the path there. I tried to find old directory in the batch job but i cant find it and even When i give value to global variable it is still pointing to old path.
Can anybody please help me.
Thanks
Tim

Hi Tim,
If having specified the value in the global variable it is still pointing to the old path there can be a couple of scenarios applicable
1. There is a different global varaiable being used for the file path
2. The filepath is hardcoded in the file-format or Excel file definition despite the declaration of the global variable.
Are you getting this error when running a dataflow within this workflow or in a script? It will be better to run the workflow in debug mode and look through the stages to find out where exactly in the workflow it fails.
kind regards
Raghu

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