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My Flow is throwing up errors with the Metadata error when trying to rename a sharepoint file : '__metadata' does not exist on the specified type

My HTTP Request is shown below.

I was follwoing this guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z1_43SWboM&t=816s and it just doesnt work.

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Building flows

Are you trying to rename a file or flow? If a file, please update the subject of your post. And if it is a file you want to rename, I think you are encountering the same issue I had just yesterday. The key to fixing it is adding /ListItemAllFields to the end of the Uri value.

I am by no means an expert, but the following configuration of the HTTP request worked for me with updating 50 items:

The following are the values used above. I used a compose action to generate the new name, so you can replace that with your values.

Uri value: _api/web/GetFolderByServerRelativeUrl('@{items('For_each')?['{Path}']}@{items('For_each')?['{Name}']}')/ListItemAllFields
- Note: I was updating folder names, so I would use your current Uri value but add "/ListItemAllFields" to the end as I mentioned above.
Headers: {
"Accept": "application/json;odata=verbose",
"X-HTTP-Method": "MERGE",
"IF-MATCH": "*"
}
{
"FileLeafRef": "@{outputs('Compose')}"
}