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Access to the path is denied error - Power Automate Desktop

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I'm having issues in performing a simple flow in PAD where I want to rename some files to match the name of the folder they are in.

It was working before as I was running test with having a fixed file path to run the flow. 

 

However, when trying to include an input dialog do that I can choose any path, I started having path denied issues. Even when reverting back to the fixed path I used I kept getting the same error.

 

I've tried running as admin, checking accesses to the drive. I'm the admin of the machine so not sure what's going on.

 

Leaving some screenshots attached.

Thank you in advance!

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  • Pstork1 Profile Picture
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    Not sure if this is the problem, but if there are subfolders or files in the main folder then you are trying to rename the files using invalid names.  In the case of subfolders you would be renaming the files with names that contain invalid characters (slashes).  In the case of files in the main folder you would be trying to rename the files with an empty string.  Both would cause an issue.

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