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Hello!

I've a flow where I use SharePoint "Copy" action. This flow was working fine without errors, but since today my flow is returning an error.

The returned error is:

Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED))

And this is my Copy action:

Variable "SharePointSiteName" is just a string containing a SharePoint site name without the trailing slash, so, for example a complete value of "Destination Site Address" could be:

https://mytenant.sharepoint.com/sites/mysite

Obviusly I checked permissions on both sites and I'm owner in each site, also I checked SitePages document library and I was owner even in that specific library.

The flow last modify was in April, so I don't know what is changed. How can I resolve this issue?

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Hello @Pepozzo
Have you checked the connection information of the action? Could you recreate the connection and test it again?
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Ferran

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Hi @Anonymous ,

The "Site Address" should be as below:

https://mytenant.sharepoint.com/sites/mysite

Please take a try to choose the site address from the drop down list with type above to see if your issue could be solved.

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Alice

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Hi @v-alzhan-msft ! Thanks for your reply. Your suggestion is valid only for test purpose because the site name has to be a variable. The flow is triggered from a SharePoint list item where a column value is the site name, so it changes each run.

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Quick update
I've tried to remove "Copy" action and I added another SharePoint REST call.

This call simply get items from a list but it doesn't work returning an access denied error. My user is owner of the site and owner of the site collection, so I can't understand why it is returning these errors. If I browse to the site with the same user I can see the site correctly.

Also I've recreated the connection but it did not help.

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Hi @Pepozzo ,

Have your problem been solved now?

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Alice

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Hi @v-alzhan-msft

No, my issue is still there. I tried to create new connection, and to export/re-import my flow but nothing worked. I really don't know what happened. As I said before I'm using the site collection administrator and also I'm authorized with Full Control permissions in sites created from flow, so I can't figure out how can be a permission problem.

Is there some site collection feature that could cause this problem if activated?

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Did anyone manage to find a solution for this problem??

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~~Just got the same error for the first time in a flow I've been running for the past 2 weeks. It seems that it is a random error in my case.~~

Editing to say that I found why I got the error: the user running the flow didn't have the editing permission in a single item in the SharePoint list. That was it. Although the user had "total control" permission to the list, this single item was read only.

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