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OneDrive for Business "List Files in Folder" limit of 20 Elements (BUG?)

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Hello,

is there a limit of the results of the function "List Files in Folder" for OneDrive for Business? I get only 20 Elements. Is this a Bug?

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v-zhos-msft Microsoft Employee on at

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Hi @Anonymous ,

The "List file in folder" action has limit with 20 items in microsoft flow currently.

If you would like the limitation to be increased or don't want to have the limitation, you could vote for idea in flow idea forum so it might be considered in the future releases:

https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Flow-Ideas/List-files-in-folder-on-OneDrive-without-limit/idi-p/...

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Community Support Team _ Zhongys

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Wow!! This is the most ridiculous decision I have ever heard!! Who wants automation for only 20 files...!!! Even worse, let's not indicate anywhere (tooltip, name) about this ridiculous limit and have people spend hours troubleshooting why only 20 files get ever returned...

It would be faster to rename 20 files by hand! Either rename the pathetic action to "list on 20 files" or please remove this unusable limit ASAP...

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RorySmit 46 on at

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Hi!
There is a overwrite solution that will solve your problem.

Go to the action settings

- Turn on Pagination, and set a new maximum
Your flow will ignore the maximum off 20 files and use the giving maximum.

Greetings,

Rory

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johnrivo 21 on at

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Thanks RorySmit,
your solution worked perfectly in my scenarios. I had the same issue in few flows I created.
Simple and effective.
Thank you very much!

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Wow... Microsoft is not even responding to stupidly obvious problem...! It would take them 5 min to increase the limit to a more manageable number like 1,000 or 5,000. This tool (or this forum) doesn't get enough attention from Microsoft.

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A_Hoogenboom 10 on at

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This is an example of incompetence or naivety at best by Microsoft Development. A tool for "Automation" developed with a limit of 20 items. (I can manually write 20 items in a database in my sleep!) Why waist hours in learning PA? I can not believe (Actually I can!) I had to turn pagination "On" and set a legitimate threshold limit myself. The lack of up front documentation and the fact that this has been reported as a problem for over 4 years only confirms “Newbies” in charge.

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