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I created some folders in a SharePoint, shared in Teams with the hope of automating some processes.

The idea was to send an email notification every time a file is created in or moved into a folder. This works so far with various triggers, but never if a file was already created once in the list and moved to the specific folder.

I couldn't find any solution for this. There is even a post from 2019 on this forum:

https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/General-Power-Automate/Trigger-flow-when-file-is-moved-within-the-same-library/m-p/361908#M35113

Is there any workaround for this? It doesn't really make any sense to create a workflow in teams, based on files, if there is no trigger working if a file was moved into a folder.

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Using flows

Hi @maskwer ,

Did you ever considered using the Sharepoint rules ?

You can then create a new rule when a file is added :

Then pointing to a specific mailbox :

Could that solve your issue ?

Regarding the notification when an item is moved within the same library, because your file (and therefore ID) is already existing, you won't be able to rely on the "When a file is created" trigger.

You have two options :

Updating your flow to when a file is created or modified (that will require to exclude any changes except the change of the fullpath value)
Create a recurent flow which would log the files and their fullpath and flag everytime on of those information is changing

In both case it would be good to see what you came up with until now with your flow ^^.

Let me know if it helps.

T