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Good morning, please help I want to start a flow as soon as a new file is created in a folder which is located on my desktop.

If anyone knows how to do the process, I would like to thank an example, thank you very much.

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Hi @Anonymous

Desktop flows can be triggered by cloud flows. You can therefore use the when a file is created trigger to kick your desktop flow into action. I've done something similar for cloud flows using the the onedrive client in this video https://youtu.be/kPbn4WMCXUU

You would need to use the file system trigger and the gateway:

If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.
Cheers,
Damien

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