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Posted on 25 Sep 2020 04:14:36 by mayankgoyal1984

Hi, I have a Sharepoint folder in a path on Sharepoint like - Shared Documents/My Folder/Output/....

This output folder has lots of folder in it with files in each folder. I have to delete all folders in Output folder. Please suggest.

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CU03091917-0 26 on 03 Sep 2024 at 20:28:10

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Delete Sharepoint Folder

This is still not possible in 2024.

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v-bacao-msft on 29 Sep 2020 at 06:03:34

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@mayankgoyal1984 ,

The method I provided will ignore the subfolders when deleting the folder, because when deleting the parent folder, all the contents inside will be clear, including subfolders. Every folder and file will have an item ID, and we rely on it for deletion.

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mayankgoyal1984 8 on 28 Sep 2020 at 08:18:03

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@v-bacao-msft - Only thing I was initially in doubt was that when deleting child folder, I am using delete item where I am providing List name as Documents and Id as folder ID which is a number, I hope in Sharepoint each folder has this unique ID number as in delete item I dont have option to provide any full path, hence it will delete item in Documents library with that ID number. Please confirm if you know about this?

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mayankgoyal1984 8 on 28 Sep 2020 at 08:15:24

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@v-bacao-msft - Thanks a lot for your response. When getting child folder in parent output folder, I am providing the right path of parent output folder in Limit Entries to folder field. With this I believe the files entire scope of delete will be limited to this parent output folder.
Once I get all folder (child folder) of parent output folder - I am looping on each of it and deleting files from each child folder to avoid error (till folder is not empty it cant be deleted). Once all files from child folder are deleted I am deleting child folder. So on a high level flow looks like -

Get all child folders in Parent folder
Loop on child folders
Get Files in Child folder
Loop on files in child folder
Delete file from child folder
Next
Delete Child Folder
Next

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v-bacao-msft on 28 Sep 2020 at 07:01:54

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Hi @mayankgoyal1984 ,

I think @yashag2255 's suggestion is correct. Please pay attention to whether these folders contain important files to avoid accidental deletion.

In addition, you could refer to the screenshot below to configure Flow:

Errors similar to "item not found" may appear when Flow is running. You can ignore these errors. Because the Get files action will get the subfolder and the files in it, when Delete item deletes the subfolder, it will also delete the files in the subfolder, so when traversing to the files in the subfolder, an error will be reported. This is in line with expectations.

Hope this helps.

Best Regards,

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yashag2255 24,695 Super User 2024 Season 1 on 25 Sep 2020 at 05:05:34

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Hi @mayankgoyal1984

Note that if there is a retention policy activated in SharePoint, Folders with data cannot be directly moved or deleted. You will have to use the list folder action and then check if the file is a folder or a file and if it is a file delete it and if not again list contents of that folder and so on.

Hope this Helps!

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