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Move or rename file using path - "The specified item name already exists"

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Hi,

So I have created a Microsoft form which allows users to attach multiple documents in the response. I created a flow where I used "When a new response is submitted" trigger to move the attached files over to different folders.

With some files, my flow throws an error "The specified item name already exists". (Only with some files even when attaching multiple!)

As you can see from the my flow, I am creating dynamic folders based on the response ID so I don't see a reason for the file to "already exist"!

PS: I tried filling in the form (multiple times with same 3 files) and attached 3 documents named: sample1.xlsx, sample2.xlsx, pic1.png

It always throws this error for "sample1.xlsx" and never on the other files.

I would really appreciate some help with this.

Thankyou!

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fchopo 8,003 Moderator on at

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Hi @ArshUser

Could you try to add a "delay" action after moving or renaming the file, for 5 seconds for instance?

Hope it helps!

Ferran

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ArshUser 78 on at

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Hi @fchopo ,

I tried this but again the same error occurs. Only sometimes though. When I re-run the flow the error goes away.

But this isn't good enough for me as this flow will be triggered by other people in the organization. I really don't want the flows to fail.

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Is the "name" attribute you're using the name of the file? Could you append response_id to file name when moving the file? In this way probably you can avoid the problem

Hope it helps!

Ferran

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