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How to delete a SharePoint folder using Power Automate

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Hello! I have gone through a past thread about deleting folders from a library and tried all the options presented.

None of them work.

I have:

Added an action to Get folder metadata using path
Populated the Folder Path field using the folder path field from the trigger step (When a file is created (properties only))
Added the action to Delete item
Entered the Library name in the list name field (the name of the library, not the URL name)
Populated the ID field with the ItemID from the Get folder metadata using path

It fails with a 400 status and tells me two fields (which are NOT part of the library that I can see) are not installed properly:

clientRequestID: GUID

serviceRequestID: GUID

I can't get my screen shot to load so I apologize for no images.

Is something missing or are there any other options to use to delete a folder?

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v-liwei-msft on at

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Hi @Anonymous

Flow does not provide an action to delete folders directly.
You can delete folders using Send an HTTP request to SharePoint.
I made a test for your reference:

_api/web/GetFolderByServerRelativeUrl(‘/sites/YourSiteName/YourDocumentLibraryName/FolderName‘)

I think this link will help you a lot:

How-To #4: Delete Empty Folders in SharePoint Document Libraries Using Power Automate – Fausto Capellan, Jr

Best Regards,

Levi

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bafegles 5 on at

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Thank you! That worked perfectly!

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_Judy_ 95 on at

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Thank you sooooooo much😍 @v-liwei-msft , @Anonymous
it's working

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sheet0311 4 on at

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Hi @Anonymous Delete Item works. - You followed the right steps, just put Documents in List item and item Id from get metadata into the Id. It will work.
I have tried the same, working for me. Thanks

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NoName404 on at

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Don't know why this is marked as the solution is it will 100% not work. It doesn't even match MS's own (not working) documentation. According to MS no path should be required.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/sp-add-ins/working-with-folders-and-files-with-rest#working-with-folders-by-using-rest

Anyway this should be simple but for whatever reason this is another thing in the endless list of things with powerautomate that take forever to figure out because of a lack of quality.

Edit: In case anybody comes across this and has wasted two hours trying to figure out what the correct path is, this should work.

_api/web/GetFolderByServerRelativeUrl('YourLibraryName/YourFolderName')

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simon19 3 on at

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Thanks mate!

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CU03091917-0 26 on at

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Anyone have this or any form of folder deletion in SPO actually working? 100's of posts but no real answers, along with MS changes breaking what used to work.

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DB-20011720-0 4 on at

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@NoName404's and @v-liwei-msft's answer still works . . . @CU03091917-0, you might have something wrong with your parameters in the "HTTP Request to SharePoint" As long as you specify "/sites/SiteName/FolderPath/FolderName" to the _api string inside the parentheses, it should work.

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