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Posted on by chandras002

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New to Power Automate. Desktop. I have a Flow (used Recorder) in which uploads the files to One Drive with .yar from particular folder. For example, File_1.yar is uploaded. It works! The files in this folder particular copied from another software. So, after some time it will have File_2.yar, File_3.yar and so on.

Question is, is it possible to use customer selector - Regular expression match i.e. *.yar. (file extension is .yar) or Ends with.

If understand correctly, this will fulfil the condition - Flow (File upload) to should run/repeat until any files in the folder with .yar extension. So, how to change the current Flow, which is works for only one File_1.yar ?

Am i missing anything? Any suggestions /ideas highly useful. Thanks 🙂

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Agnius Bartninkas Most Valuable Professional on at

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Why exactly are you using custom selectors here anyway? You don't need a user interface to work with files. You should just use Get files in folder to get your file(s) and then use Move file(s) to move them (or Copy file(s) to copy, if you want to keep a version locally) if you have the OneDrive app installed on your machine, which means you also have the directory created by the app on your local machine, that is synced to the cloud. All you need to do is move/copy the file between directories and the app will take care of the sync.

If you are trying to upload the file via the browser interface, you should just provide a path to the "Open" dialog of your browser when you select a file to upload. Again, no need to use a custom selector relating to the actual file.

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Hi Agnius,
yes, i am trying to upload to similar to One Drive via the browser interface. Why? need to use a custom selector?
correct. Custom selector may not be correct one. Now, the question is how to give condition to Power Automate, as long as there is any. yar file extension in the target folder, it should upload but do not repeat already uploaded files? Can use Recorder options? another trick part here, each upload needs to be right clicked and copy and paste the File name on the browser interface. Hope i have explained the issue clearly?
Please advise on this regard? can we program using "variable" options?

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