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Hello all,

The company I work for wants all of the employee's documents saved on their company computer to be transferred into Onedrive for easier access, sharing, and productivity. Then, we would want all future documents saved on the computer to go to one drive. Is this possible with Power Automate Desktop? How would I implement this? Which tier plan would I need? Any Advice?

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MichaelAnnis 5,727 Moderator on at

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I would treat these as two separate projects. 1) getting everything currently on the computer to onedrive and 2) ensuring all new files get posted.

For the first project, you can use PAD to "Get all Files" and this will even look through to subfolders. Once you have the list of files, you could say, for each file in Files, save to OneDrive.

The second project is hard; however, if you are looking for a PAD solution, you should be able to use the same logic:
Get all files
For each file in Files
If the Last Modified Date is > The Last Time we ran this flow
Save file to OneDrive
EndIF
End (For Each)
Best of Luck!

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Hi Michael,

Thanks for your help! Is there a way for me to complete project one for everyone in the office simultaneously? Would your advice allow me to do that, or would I have to go through each person individually?

Also, which plan would we need to purchase to be able to do this? There are about 60 people/computers and years of files to upload.

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To be honest, there are probably better solutions for what you are trying to accomplish than PAD. I would reach out to OneDrive Support and ask them what their recommended course of action is.

For PAD, in order to share a flow with another computer you all have to be on the same domain e-mail (such as person1@domain.com and person2@domain.com). Then, you both need a PAD membership. PAD memberships, I think, run $40/user/month or $500/flow/month. So, you might be able to get away with just one flow for $500 per month, but like I said, I bet OneDrive has a better solution.

As for OneDrive memberships, I have no idea what is needed there to hold that kind of data.

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