Issue with Created file sharepoint power automate

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I try to move some folder / file in my Onedrive Business personnal folder to a shared sharepoint.

I try to add "create file" sharepoint action in power automate but i can't recover my folder names to the destination folder.

Example :

Source folder : Onedrive\Candidature\myfolders\myfiles

Destination folder: Sharepoint\Candidature\myfolders\myfiles 

My source folder received somes folder in Candidature Folder and i want to transfer folder to Candidature folder in sharepoint

Do you have idea?

[lbendlin]

as far as I know you cannot transfer folders. You can retrieve file contents into a variable and then write that variable back into another file.  File by file. Restrictions apply (size etc)

[Grant_Jenkins]

I wrote the below response without fully understanding your issue - you want to automate when a new folder comes into your OneDrive Candidate folder and move it automatically to SPO. Below is manual option only.

There is a Move To action (and Copy To) in OneDrive that will allow you to move (or copy) a single file, or a folder with files (as well as nested folders/files) to another location within OneDrive or SharePoint Online.

Note that Move To will keep all the metadata intact such as when/who created the file, when/who modified the file, etc. But Copy To will reset these to the time you move the content and who moved it.

If you select a file or folder you should see the option to Move To or Copy To on the ribbon.

Or you can click on the ... next to a file/folder to get the context menu below.

[Grant_Jenkins]

The Power Automate (screenshot at bottom of this post) will move individual files (outside a specific candidature folder - Test Document 1.docx in the example below), or an entire candidature folder including sub folders/files.

The key thing to note here is that your OneDrive is effectively another SharePoint site so you can use the SharePoint actions with OneDrive including Move folder and Move file actions.

I set the trigger up to run on a schedule (maybe you could do it a couple of times a day, etc.). Using something like When an item is created might not work perfectly given that you want to move the folder in its entirety so don't want individual files or sub folders triggering.

See full Power Automate below:

[Grant_Jenkins]

@lbendlin You can move an entire folder including sub folders/files from OneDrive using the SharePoint Move folder action since OneDrive is effectively a SharePoint site behind the scenes. See my second reply to the post for example.

[lbendlin]

@Grant_Jenkins last time I tried this there was a 100 MiB message size limit. Have they removed that?