diff a/dhp-workflows/dhp-doiboost/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/doiboost/orcid/SparkDownloadOrcidAuthors.java b/dhp-workflows/dhp-doiboost/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/doiboost/orcid/SparkDownloadOrcidAuthors.java	(rejected hunks)
@@ -31,7 +32,6 @@ public class SparkDownloadOrcidAuthors {
 
 	static Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(SparkDownloadOrcidAuthors.class);
 	static final String DATE_FORMAT = "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss";
-	static String lastUpdate;
 
 	public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
 
@@ -54,14 +54,18 @@ public class SparkDownloadOrcidAuthors {
 		final String token = parser.get("token");
 		final String lambdaFileName = parser.get("lambdaFileName");
 		logger.info("lambdaFileName: {}", lambdaFileName);
-
-		lastUpdate = HDFSUtil.readFromTextFile(workingPath.concat("last_update.txt"));
+		final String hdfsServerUri = parser.get("hdfsServerUri");
 
 		SparkConf conf = new SparkConf();
 		runWithSparkSession(
 			conf,
 			isSparkSessionManaged,
 			spark -> {
+				String lastUpdate = HDFSUtil.readFromTextFile(hdfsServerUri, workingPath, "last_update.txt");
+				logger.info("lastUpdate: ", lastUpdate);
+				if (StringUtils.isBlank(lastUpdate)) {
+					throw new RuntimeException("last update info not found");
+				}
 				JavaSparkContext sc = JavaSparkContext.fromSparkContext(spark.sparkContext());
 
 				LongAccumulator parsedRecordsAcc = spark.sparkContext().longAccumulator("parsed_records");