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Get File Content in One Drive for Business Connector not working

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Posted on by GA-04020600-0 Microsoft Employee
I am using Power Automate to read a file from my One Drive. For this purpose, I am using 'Get File Content' plugin under One Drive for Business Connector. However, on Selecting file path, path of files are not listed. Further the plugin unable to read file from one drive while running flow.
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    David_MA 14,956 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at
    If you know the file you want to get, you need to use this action instead:
     
     
    The current action you are using would be used if your trigger was when a file is created or modified in OneDrive for business as the trigger returns the ID needed to retrieve the file.

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