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Power Automate Desktop find folder/ folder filter beginning with "Variable"

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Hi,

I am currently trying to filter through over 5000 folders for a specific folder that starts with "Variable".

I have used get subfolders in folder and this has produced a list of over 5000 folders and need to get the path and full name of a specific folder.
I have tried using the for each loop to go through the list of 5000 folders but this takes over 25 mins to just locate the folder and was wondering if there is another way ie Folder Filter when getting the subfolders using starts with instead of ends with..

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    You can also give a prefix of the subfolder you want in the criteria followed by a wild card character.

    Eg; VariableName*

     

    There is an asterisk at the end.

     

    So if the variable value is Test, then it will return all subfolders as Test1, Test2, Test123, etc.

     

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