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I am trying to set up a flow where when I add a new folder into a document library it will automatically copy that folders name and make a copy into a different sharepoint document library. The folder in the first document library has an automation on it where it auto fills in a large number of forms and folders. I don’t want those forms or folders in the other location and don’t want the folders linked at all.

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trice602 15,404 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hi @Nicktrom55 ,

Here's a solution to implement. In this example, when a new folder is created in a main library named /Documents I will create the same folder in a completely different library (could also be completely different site) names /Names. Here's the flow:

The trigger is the folder I am monitoring for new folders named Documents

Next I check if the modification is an actual folder because we only want to monitor new folder creations so I check if the condition is true.

If true, I want to create this folder in my other library (again, could be a completely different SP site too). Please mark as a solution.

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thank you so much for the help! i was off in one part when i tried myself.

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The solution worked properly. One issue I’m having is that the folder when I create a new folder in the first library it is at the same time creating subfolders automatically. For some reason these subfolders are also being populated in the copy location.

example:
library A
Folder
Subfolder
Subfolder
Subfolder

what’s coming over to library B is

folder
subfolder
subfolder
subfolder

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