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get files (properties only) takes nothing

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Posted on by lazarester

i am trying to make a flow, that copies files from one folder to another and then delete from the first. Or moves them, doesnt matter.

i made it as i understand and it had no mistakes, but does nothing. I watched couple of videos and the solution they use is just exactly the same exept it works and do things!

please help

i tried a bit different ways, also i tried to use the "get files properties" insted of "get files (properties only)" - same result/

at least tell, if i get the files properties

i need the working method more, but what i want is to understand 🙂

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ccc333ab 1,144 on at

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Not a good answer, but like you, I see nothing wrong with your flow. I even rebuilt it on my side EXACTLY using your steps and it works perfectly. There has to be something really small somewhere that is causing your issue.

So since your flow doesn't even get into the loop, can you just confirm something? In your run just before the Apply to Each, click the download from your Get Files (properties only). Just to see if you are getting any results...that way we can determine if that is the issue?

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I have the same situation.
What I have investigated:
from one SharePoint site it works (flow see the folder content).
from another doesn't work - same problem like yours.
Working case:

Not working case.
- both pictures from one flow.
- same folder content (which I'm trying to extract) on the each SharePoint site.

For now - I do not understand why?
Can some one help?

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Milica 4 on at

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I have the same problem. Any update on this?

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Duvdi 6 on at

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Same problem. For some folders 'Get files (properties only)' gets the data and in some folders, it does not get anything.

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Duvdi 6 on at

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Although I had only 6 files in the folder, using "pagination" helped, but now the flow takes forever...

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Hard to provide input if you don't provide your flow steps. But one suggestion may be on IF you have an Apply to Each step, turn on Concurrency Control so that the files are retrieved concurrently instead of sequentially (In Settings).

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Duvdi 6 on at

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When I noticed the 'Get files (properties only)' has a problem fetching data from some folders, I made a simple flow with only 'Get files (properties only)' and 'Compose'. That is the reason I haven't published it 😉
It was solved using the Pagination setting.
Thanks for your suggestion, I applied it in my flows.

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Xihan_Jin 2 on at

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The include nested items is set as True by default. I have a fixed similar issue by setting it to False.

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ManuelCoelho 7 on at

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A bit late on this one but, I had the same issue and I figured that for some reason, even with the 'Limit Entries to Folder' with some folder path you need to change the pagination settings to 5000 for example.

The reason why our friend who replied first did it successfully it has due to the fact (probably) that he had less than 100 files in his SharePoint. you certainly have more, so try the pagination

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