How to use save attachments to a Dropbox folder.

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Posted on 26 Jul 2024 20:49:19 by yellowsquirrel

Hi, I've created a flow that sends out an email when a user sets an item's status to completed. The email is also sending any attachments that were uploaded to the form in reference to the item completed. That part of the flow is working as intended however, I now need the flow the save the attachments that were emailed into a Dropbox folder.

I have tried to use the "get attachment" and "create file" actions, but I'm getting the following error:

The specified id or path 'C:\Users\AlondraPineda\SMEG Dropbox\Alondra Pineda\Skeeter\Sales\Sales Drawings/Testing- 14785 - Webb County Vol. FD - SBT - Freightliner M2 106 4 Door 89CA - 168 Step Side - 9-6-2022.pdf' is invalid.
inner exception: Exception of type 'Microsoft.Azure.Connectors.Dropbox.DropboxAdapterException' was thrown.
clientRequestId: f4bd659b-d394-4a3a-ac88-e7d7afddc322
serviceRequestId: 0ef75d00a52f49638172c1dc8cde6a38

I would like to know if I am going about this the right way and if so how to fix the error. Let me know if you need to see more details of the flow and i will upload more screenshots. Mind you I have very little knowledge in all this technical computer stuff, "apples and oranges" explanations are the best suit for me ha-ha.

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yellowsquirrel 21 on 29 Jul 2024 at 13:26:40

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How to use save attachments to a Dropbox folder.

Hi, I have copied the URL straight from Dropbox folder website. Now how would I authenticate it, as I'm still getting the same error?

----UPDATE----
I changed the Folder Path to the following and now my flow test results is showing as succeeded, but file is still not saved in the Dropbox folder. The Dropbox is a company shared Dropbox. I hardly ever access the Dropbox through my browser, rather I have it set up to where the folders I need are synced to my desktop. When I click on the little folder icon in the "Folder Path" blank, there are two options that are given as paths. One option shows my name as the first folder, the other options does not show my name as a folder to the path. The folder with my name is not a folder I manually created, I guess it's just like my user folder..? I've tried it with and without my name in the first part of the Folder Path, both tries give me green test results but still no file to be found in folder. Do you have any advice??
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Michael E. Gernaey 42,422 Super User 2025 Season 1 on 27 Jul 2024 at 01:49:36

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Hi

You cannot point to a Local Computer Path when using Power Automate (Azure), you would need a gateway to get there.

But since you are specifically trying to write it to DropBox, you need to use their URL path and authenticate to it, not try to write to some mapped C drive or whatever you got going there.

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