Anypoint Studio console execution does not go past deployed - mulesoft

Question

Below is the configuration xml of my small program in Anypoint Studio. What i am trying to do is copying one text file data(pipe delimited) to another text file. The execution goes well but stops at status as "Deployed". I have tried other transformations as well but the result is same. Help is highly appreciable. Thanks in advance.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<mule xmlns:db="http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/db" xmlns:ee="http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/ee/core"
xmlns:file="http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/file"
xmlns="http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/core" xmlns:doc="http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/documentation" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/core http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/core/current/mule.xsd
http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/file http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/file/current/mule-file.xsd
http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/ee/core http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/ee/core/current/mule-ee.xsd
http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/db http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/db/current/mule-db.xsd">
<flow name="texttoexcelFlow" doc:id="42aaa83a-e26a-4f6d-8d2f-da3613a8d232" initialState="started">
<file:read doc:name="Read" doc:id="89fa46c9-aa14-4a79-b7ab-e609b9fad501" path="D:\Mulesoft Input\Name.txt" outputMimeType="application/json" outputEncoding="UTF-8">
<repeatable-in-memory-stream />
</file:read>
<ee:transform doc:name="Transform Message" doc:id="86dc86b8-99ed-4bee-b5bc-e07616e44431" >
<ee:message >
<ee:set-payload ><![CDATA[%dw 2.0
output application/csv headerLineNumber = 0 , header = false , separator = "|"
---
payload map ( payload01 , indexOfPayload01 ) -> {
FirstName: payload01.FirstName ,
LastName: payload01.LastName
}]]></ee:set-payload>
</ee:message>
</ee:transform>
<file:write doc:name="Write" doc:id="3884725e-3870-4ef1-9e05-b10a2274dfa6" path="C:\Users\aseem\Desktop\Mulesoft Output\Excel.txt">
</file:write>
</flow>
</mule>
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Answer 1

You need something to trigger the flow to run. file:read doesn’t do this automatically.
All flows need a ‘Source’ to trigger them unless you are calling them from other flows using flow-ref (or from dataweave using a lookup()).
If you know the exact file you want then you can put a scheduler before your file:read to trigger the flow:
<scheduler>
<scheduling-strategy>
<fixed-frequency startDelay="5" frequency="10" timeUnit="SECONDS"/>
</scheduling-strategy>
</scheduler>
Or you can use a file:listener to listen for new files in a directory etc as the source directly:
<flow name="onNewFile">
<file:listener config-ref="file" directory="test-data/in" autoDelete="true">
<scheduling-strategy>
<fixed-frequency frequency="1000"/>
</scheduling-strategy>
</file:listener>
...
</flow>
You can use fixed frequency or cron. More details here: https://docs.mulesoft.com/mule-runtime/4.1/scheduler-xml-reference