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Hi everyone - I have built this flow through Power Automate Desktop to automatically print a document that comes into a folder.  I added a step to move that printed document to an archive folder, but now the flow is moving to that step so quickly that by the time it wants to print, it's giving error that the document can't be found since it's already been moved.  Is there a step I can add to make it wait until it's finished printing before moving the file?

 

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Thanks in advance for any assistance!

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    MichaelAnnis Profile Picture
    5,727 Moderator on at

    If you cannot find a trigger, there is always a default "Wait" X where X is the number of seconds you want it to wait.

     

    Alternatively, you could print them all, and then move them all, because by the time it gets to the last document, it should be enough time to start moving the documents.

     

    So, for each, print, end...then, for each, move, end.

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    Oh my goodness, I'm dumb.  I could not find that wait command.  Thank you so much for such a quick response!!!

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