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ImportRANGE returns a #NAME error occasionally as it updates itself every 30 mins.

I took a look through Google Sheet Script Returning #NAME? but there sadly wasn't any solutions. The best guess at a response was about how google sheets loads custom formulas, but since =IMPORTRANGE() is a vanilla formula it shouldn't have a problem with that.

My formula is

=IMPORTRANGE("URLHERE",(A5&"!"&"D1")) 

First the URL, then the final section allowing it to request data from a different sheet in the file for every line. I have setup the sheets that contain the source data to be called 1,2,3,4, ect up to 100 to accomodate for this.

I am trying to import data from a different sheet that has a custom script running to import JSON data. The JSON is imported perfectly and once a day a macro will run that updates the JSON values. I have a separate sheet that I don't want to run the script on, so I am using IMPORTRANGE to get the data from JSON imports. Every 30 minutes Importrange updates itself and it researches for the values. It would work fine for me for this to be once a day, however, I can't find a way to change that.

Most of the time it has no problems, occasionally it has a problem with a couple of the imports but most are fine. A couple of times it has hit #NAME on every single IMPORTRANGE.

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