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Help needed to create a flow to download files based on paths defined in a column in an excel file in SharePoint

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Hi,

I have an Excel file in a folder in SharePoint. The file includes a table that has several file paths defined in a column. I want to create a flow to loop through each row in the file path column and download the files to a specific folder.

I have tried every possible action and have yet to find anything on this topic.

Thanks in Advance!

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Rhiassuring 8,690 Moderator on at

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Hi there,

File paths - are these file paths also pointing to SharePoint? When you say download, do you mean Move, or do you mean Copy?

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1) Yes, the paths are Pointing to a Sharepoint
2) Yes, i need to Copy

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So if it's all within one site, it'll look like this (you can ignore that mine says it's pointing at OneDrive - it's the same process)

My "File" in Excel shows /library/folder/folder/filename.ext -- for example, /Expenses/December/Invoice2345.pdf

If your files were all from different sites, aka http://1234.sharepoint.com/sites/abc/expenses... and http://1234.sharepoint.com/sites/123/expenses you'd need to break out the site and put that into the "site address" as dynamic content instead.

Then I just hard coded the site & folder that I want to copy to, and used the "path" from the "get the file metadata using path" output.

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Thank you for guiding me on this. For some reason, I am getting a flow time-out error. I shall try with a different SharePoint and check.

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