Create folder bad gateway

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Posted on by BenChainCode

I have a fairly simple flow

Sharepoint item created
get item
Create new folder
Grant access to folder
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.

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

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BenChainCode 42 on at

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

Another example of Power Automate's lousy error handling.

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I came across this problem where I had a period (.) sign at the end of my string of the folder name where it gave bad gateway error. When I removed the period sign it worked.

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