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Posted on by BenChainCode 42

I have a fairly simple flow

 

  1. Sharepoint item created
  2. get item
  3. Create new folder
  4. Grant access to folder
  5. Send email

 

For some reason one of the flows gets a bad request error on the create folder.  

 

The error message:

 

      "message": "The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007007B)\r\nclientRequestId: 4465bad5-4143-4143-b52d-5afe550a8272\r\nserviceRequestId: 4465bad5-4143-4143-b52d-5afe550a8272"
 
What I don't understand is why. Other times the flow runs without problems. There is nothing obviously different about this item name to cause this issue. It is unclear what sort of format requirement limitations there are.
 
Resubmitting results in failure.

 

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I see similar issue was posted before but not solved: https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Building-Flows/Bad-gateway-creating-folder/m-p/456881#M54546

 

  • Formatron Profile Picture
    Formatron 63 on at
    Re: Create folder bad gateway

    Thank you so much. I was having the same problem.

     

    Another example of Power Automate's lousy error handling.

  • rrovira Profile Picture
    rrovira Microsoft Employee on at
    Re: Create folder bad gateway

    Hello, @BenChainCode!

     

    Interesting! I wouldn't have thought that a single space at the end of the path would be the cause the issue! Would you please mark your answer as the solution so other user can check this solution? 😁

     

    Thanks in advance and cheers!

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    BenChainCode 42 on at
    Re: Create folder bad gateway

    Of course the second I press post I find the issue:

     

    There was a space at the end of the generated folder name string. Deleting that solved it. 

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