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Hello,

I have a data gateway setup and am successfully pulling a file from it and uploading its contents to SharePoint. I want to delete the on premise file after the process, however I cannot get it working. I have tried using the delete file function and placing the 'list files' ID, Path, Name, even DisplayName and no luck. It either says it cannot find the file, or when I choose Name, it says success but the file does not delete.

Here is the error.

"body":{"status":400,"message":"The requested action could not be completed. Check your request parameters to make sure the path 'E:\\Code\\Powershell\\Career Services Upload\\Upload/Alumni-1-27-2021.csv' exists on your file system.\r\nclientRequestId: 514b3371-62c4-48a7-ad32-203494d005bb","error":{"message":"The requested action could not be completed. Check your request parameters to make sure the path 'E:\\Code\\Powershell\\Career Services Upload\\Upload/Alumni-1-27-2021.csv' exists on your file system."},"source":"filesystem-wus.azconn-wus-01.p.azurewebsites.net"}}

That path does work on my file system, and is working on my get file content component.

Thanks.

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v-yiwenxie-msft Microsoft Employee on at

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Hi @Kthomas

The value you should put in the ‘File’ in ‘Delete file’ action should be the path of the file which you can get from dynamic content.

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Kthomas 19 on at

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Thanks for the feedback. Path did not work either.

{"status":400,"message":"The requested action could not be completed. Check your request parameters to make sure the path 'E:\\Code\\Powershell\\Career Services Upload\\Upload/Alumni-1-27-2021.csv' exists on your file system.\r\nclientRequestId: 57fd9cf4-33c9-4bfa-825a-7d69e3d97b95","error":{"message":"The requested action could not be completed. Check your request parameters to make sure the path 'E:\\Code\\Powershell\\Career Services Upload\\Upload/Alumni-1-27-2021.csv' exists on your file system."},"source":"filesystem-wus.azconn-wus-01.p.azurewebsites.net"}}

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Hi @Kthomas

I've tried every effort to reproduce the error you get, but still couldn't reproduce it.

Every error occurs at the 'Get file content' action.

I previously thought that there is a bug in 'delete file' action. But every time when the file content has been got and the condition works well, 'delete file' works quite well.

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@Kthomas I am curious if you ever found the issue? I am encountering the same problem. I have a logic app where I am connected to a local file share data gateway -- I am able to pick up a file, get the file content, create a new file in a different ftp location with the file content, but then the file won't delete from the local file share on my data gateway. I am using the List of File Paths to specify which file to delete. Here is my workflow with the File Delete action:
The strange part is that the workflow completes successfully if I am picking up files with the extension .txt. However, the files I am trying to pick up are .csv and for whatever reason, this causes the file deletion to fail with the same error message you receive. I also tried using the List of File Names to specify the file to delete, but got the same result as you: Successful run but the file was not actually deleted.

Curious if you found a solution to this strange issue?

Thanks!
Meredith

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