Copy from one drive business to SharePoint

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I'm new to Flow so I apologize if this has been answered already as I could not find it.

I need to copy a file that is saved to a OneDrive Business to a SharePoint document folder.

I need it to copy any file that is placed in the OneDrive Business folder, regardless of name or file extention.

Then save it into the SharePoint document folder, and overwrite if the file is already in place

then delete the files from the OneDrive folder as I do not want it to keep copying the file every 15 minutes

This is what I have but it doesn't seem to work.

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Hi Xodiak83,

Please consider to use action “Create file” instead of “Copy file”.

I created a flow looks like below, every time the file is created in Onedrive for Business, it will also be created to Library. And if the file is already existing, it will be replaced by the new one.

Please try this on your side and let me know if it works.

Best regards,
Mabel Mao

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Thank you v-yamao,

I did that and it worked fine, however I ran into some issues this morning.

I made this change as you indicated in your image yetserday while I was just playing around with the program and got it to work, every fifteen minutes it copied over any new file in the folder.

This morning however, while I was expecting it to run around 6am, nothing happened, I had to manually log on and move the file.

Does FLOW use windows scheduler or something to work or do you have to be logged in to have it working?
Cause after I made this change, a coworker dropped a file int he folder this morning and the FLOW didn't move the file as it should have, she is listed as a owner of the FLOW as well (its a team flow). The only files that will move are ones I place in there, and even then its only moving over one file and only the first one put in the folder.

Thank you again for all your help, very much appreciated.

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I tried to do the same. But if I copy and paste into the OneDrive for Business folder, than the files are not copied to Sharepoint. Any idea how I can get it working. And on top of it I would like that all folders in Ondrive are not taken into account for the copy process.

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