Excel.WriteToFile needs local file path to the dyn file

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Dynamo version

1.0.0.1180

Revit version

16.0.1144.0
20160525_1230(x64)
Update5 for R2

Operating system

Windows 7 and Microsoft Excel 2007

What did you do?

wrote a dyn file to export room and area information into a template excel sheet. opened the revit model, opened dynamo, opened my dyn file, specified the file path for the excel template, and clicked run.

What did you expect to see?

the template excel file that is pathed to update.

What did you see instead?

trying to write to a file that is not local to the dyn file will return an error sometimes and write to a new excel file.
(https://github.com/DynamoDS/DynamoRevit/files/326692/RVTDASH_KDHC.xlsx)