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So something odd is going on with a new cloud flow I am building. I need to watch a folder to become empty. Once empty do something.... if X time passes and the folder still isn't empty, do something else. Normally I just create a parallel path at the end of the loop with one task triggered on when the Do until timeout hits, be it 3 minutes or 3 hours, and the other path on Success. For some reason, the path is always successful even if the 3 minute timeout is hit. The example below I have a timeout set to 3 minutes for testing and a file in the folder that I have to manually delete.

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venturemavenwill 1,189 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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The problem here is that even though the timeout limit is reached, the action is still "successful" because it fulfilled all the run criteria without running into an error, so since the loop did not get an error, it also shows the run as successful.

The has timed out option only works when the connector actually returns with a timeout error message.

In your case, you might need to simply set a variable that counts how many files are in the FTP folder, and use that as a condition instead.

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Ellis Karim 11,725 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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The "timeout" for the Do Until has a different meaning to an action that has "timeout".

A "timeout" of PT3M means that the Do Until loop will stop after 3 minutes (or if the loop has run 500 times: Loop count: 500). In this case the Do Until loop will have "succeeded". As we see from your runtime output no actions failed, skipped or timedout:

Can you use an IF condition with the FTPCount to determine if the actions "timedout"? FTPCount is not equal to 0?

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Thanks all...I'll add a condition to the check.

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