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When a file is deleted in sharepoint - get path of deleted file

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Hi PA team!

I have a bit of an issue in one of my flows. My flow is triggered when a file is deleted in "Documents" on my sharepoint site. I have multiple folders within "Documents", and rather than hardcoding a flow for each of the folders I would like to have one single flow. I need the path of the deleted sharepoint file, but it does not appear in the dynamic content. Anyone with a smart workaround?

Any help is much appreciated!

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Nived_Nambiar 18,136 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Hi @mathias4

In dynamic content, there is no variable to get the filepath of deleted file

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Hi Nived, thank you very much for your reply. Do you know if there are any workarounds to this?

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Nived_Nambiar 18,136 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Hi @mathias4

Well trying in different way, i got the folder path from which file was deleted, to which i combined filename to get complete path of file.

here i have recyclebin to get the details of deleted file and its give will give the directory name from which file is deleted. at last in compose you can see i have written an expression to get the complete file path like below

concat(body('Send_an_HTTP_request_to_SharePoint')?['d']?['results']?[0]?['DirName'],triggerOutputs()?['body/FileNameWithExtension'])

Hope it helps !
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Amazing! Thank you very much!

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AnthonyNguyen 2 on at

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Thanks for your help. But what if we delete same file name multiple times?

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joesto 2 on at

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And how do I get the 'Compose' [concat(body('Send_an_HTTP_request_to_SharePoint')?['d']?['results']?[0]?['DirName'],triggerOutputs()?['body/FileNameWithExtension'])] into a message???

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