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Is it possible to create a folder flow that self-deletes content?

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Hello,
New to Power Automate and looking for some guidance.

Is it possible to create a Flow that will allow a folder to self-delete it's content?

For example, every day at 9pm, no matter what is in the folder, everything will be deleted.

Would this simply send the files to the Recycle Bin or will this permanently delete the files?

Thank you for the help

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Hi @VWP5，

Use the recurrence as the trigger by setting every day at 9pm.

Note that Shared Documents/Temp/ is my folder path, please replace it with yours.

item()?['{Identifier}']

Under this Filter array action, we will add an ‘Apply to each’ action for looping where we will use the body as output from the previous step i.e. from the Filter array.

The above flow will move all the files into the recycle bin as below:

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sandeepstw 312 Moderator on at

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Hi There,
Yes, you can. Use a "Recurrence" trigger to set the frequency of the flow to run every day at 9pm. Use the "Get files (properties only)" or "Get files (metadata only)" action to get all the files in the specified folder. Use an "Apply to each" control to iterate through each file. Use the "Delete file" action inside the loop to delete each file.

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Sandeep Mishra

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Thank you

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