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I’m new to power automate. I’m trying to create a work flow that will send an email when a file is added to a specific folder. It works when the file is created in the folder but I’m trying to get it to work when a template in the parent folder is copied, renamed then dragged and dropped into the folder.

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Hello @SA-03051829-0,

This is known limitation. Power Automate does not support triggering a flow when a file is moved into a folder.

Reference Link: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/business-apps/power-automate/sharepoint-connector-actions-triggers#move-files-and-flow-runs

As Workaround:

You can handle it using a scheduled flow and flag column. (Set the flow recurrence as per your requirement like every 1 hr or 15 mins and so on)

Please follow below steps:

#1. Add a column "Is Notified" with Choice: Yes/No, default = No
#2. Use a Recurrence trigger (run every few minutes)
#3. Use Get files (properties only) with OData filter:

IsNotified eq 'No' or IsNotified eq ''
#4. Send email for those files.
#5. After sending email then update the file properties

IsNotified eq 'Yes'

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