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Copying a folder in Sharepoint when you only have a 'copied link' URL in a list

Hi,

On my SharePoint list, I have a column called 'Link to related documents' where users manually enter a URL to a folder of documents they created on the Teams site. These links when you copy and paste into a browser all are correct and work - appearing such as https://XXXX.sharepoint.com/:f:/s/XXXXX/ABCDEFGHEJ?e=ABCD

As part of an archiving flow I have so far successfully moved and deleted items 6 months and older to a different SharePoint archive list. I also want to copy (and put all these copied files into a different archive area) and delete the files in the folder of the URL manually entered. These folders also occasionally contain subfolders within. originally I had used the 'Copy folder' step and had used the dynamic field of 'Link to related documents' in the folder to copy field, resulting in an error "Failed to verify the existence of source object" due to it not being a file identifier in this field which is required.

The trouble I am having is getting the file identifier of the folder from the URL that was manually entered on the list. I have tried creating a string variable, and then 'get file content using path' but it seems to keep running for over 10 mins and times out which is strange as in my test environment there is only one list item it is apply it to currently!

I've tried looking around the forum but nothing is solving my issue - specifically that the SharePoint List field is a manually entered URL (which is taken from copying link to the folder in Teams).

Thanks for any assistance you can provide 🙂