I have read the documentation for gdrive here, but I couldn't find a way to do what I want to do. I want to write a bash script to upload automatically a specific folder from my hard drive. The problem is that when I upload it several times, instead of replacing the old folder by the new one, it generates a new folder with the same name.
I could only find the following partial solutions to my problem:
Use update to replace files. The problem with this partial solution is that new files inside the folder could not get uploaded automatically, and I would have to change the bash script every time a new file is produced in the folder that I want to upload.
Erase the folder by its id from google drive and then upload the folder again. The problem here is that whenever I do this, the id of the uploaded folder chagnes, so I couldn't find a way to write a script to do the work.
I am looking for any method that solves my problem. But the precise questions that could help me are:
Is there a way to delete a folder from google drive (using gdrive) by its name instead of by its id?
Is there a way to get the id of a folder by its name? I guess not, since there can be several folders with the same name (but different ids) uploaded. Or am I missing something?
Is there a way to do a recursive update to renew all files that are already inside the folder uploaded on google drive and in addition upload those that are not yet uploaded?
In case it is relevant, I am using Linux Mint 18.1.
Is there a way to delete a folder from google drive (using gdrive) by its name instead of by its id?
Nope. As your next question observes, there can be multiple such folders.
Is there a way to get the id of a folder by its name? I guess not, since there can be several folders with the same name (but different ids) uploaded. Or am I missing something?
You can get the ids (plural) of all folders with a given name.
gdrive list -q "name = 'My folder name' and mimeType='application/vnd.google-apps.folder' and trashed=false"
Is there a way to do a recursive update to renew all files that are already inside the folder uploaded on google drive and in addition upload those that are not yet uploaded?
Yes, but obviously not with a single command. You'll need to write a short script using gdrive list and parse (awk works well) the output.
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I'm new to power automate and have been searching on Microsoft forums and googling a flow to copy all contents of a sharepoint root folder (Documents) to a local drive and cannot find an easy straight forward answer.
All i see is how to copy files to a local drive, which after trying and failing a lot, i finally found 1 flow that helped me do it in 2 steps:
1 - When a file is created;
2 - Create file
What i intend is to backup the root documents folder monthly with all other folder and files included to a local drive with power automate.
Appreciate any help.
Il post the prints on the flow i have right now:
Created Flow
Error after running flow
What happens is that one subfolder is selected and only the files on the subfolder are copied to the local drive, not the subfolder itself, and after that it stops the flow saying no dependent actions succeeded. I was expecting the following:
1 - Select files in folder and copy to chosen path;
2 - Select subfolders with files and create the same subfolders with files on the chosen path;
First you have to list all the files you need to copy to your Drive using the sharepoint Get Files action:
Next, add an Apply to each using the first dynamic content you have on the right side, normally it's a value like showed below, then add sharepoint action Get file content using path. Select the same root directory you used in the Get Files action and in the File Path property use the dynamic content Complete Path.
Next, all you have to do is create a new file using the Google Drive action Create File still inside the Apply to each. Use the file name and in File Contents use the dynamic content File contents:
I'm trying to access all the files from a certain folder so that I can get their path and put it into an array. Once I get this array, I'd like to use it in a react file and display its contents on a page. I had a general idea of looping through the folder but couldn't find a solution to my problem. Is there a way to do this, directly or maybe through a third-party package?
I am trying to get the attachments of some emails and check if that attachment already exists in SharePoint. However, since the flow may have already run over some attachments that have already been received, they may or may not already be in SharePoint, so I first have to check SharePoint if the attachment exists and if they don't, create the file using the email attachment content.
So what I have so far is replicating a process that was described here
The problem that quickly arises is that under "Get file content using path" action, the File Path input box(circled below) won't let me append a file path that isn't currently already in a document folder.
Not sure if this is still a valid way to accomplish it or if there's another way. I have checked all over the place and still haven't been able to find a solution. If there's anybody that can help it would be greatly appreciated!!
To tackle this what you can do is to create a variable using Initialize variable action and compose the path e.g. '/DocumentLibrary/file.ext' that you want to check if exists. then you can refer to that variable in your folder path box for Get file content using path action. Please see the screenshot:
Next you can configure run afterfor file creation action and create file if Get file content using path action has failed, otherwise do other stuff that is required. I have tested this for sending different emails based upon file found or not found and it works well.
Hope this solves your issue.
I have written a bit of automated code that checks a SharePoint site and looks for a ZIP file (lets call it doc.zip). If doc.zip is found, it downloads it, and then checks for a file (say target.docx). doc.zip is about 300MB, and so I want to only download where necessary.
What I would like to know is that given SharePoint has some ZIP search capability, is it possible to write code using CSOM (c#) to find doc.zip, and then run some code to retrieve the contents of doc.zip without downloading it.
Just to re-iterate, I am comfortable with searching for files in a folder on SP, downloading the file, and unpacking zip entries. What I need is to retrieve a ZIP files content on SP without downloading it.
E.g. is there a SP command:
cxt.Load(SomeZipFileQuery);
cxt.ExecuteQuery();
Thanks in advance.
This capability is not available. I do like the idea. Having the ability to "parse" zip files on the server side and then download the relevant bits would be ideal. Perhaps raise this on uservoice to see if others also find this us https://sharepoint.uservoice.com
Ok, I have proven yet again that stubbornness will prevail.
I have figured out that if I use the /_api/search?query='myfile.zip' web REST API to search for my file, this search will also match ZIP files that contain the file I need. And it works perfectly.
Of course there is added (pain) of parsing an XML response, but it works very nicely for my code example.
At least if someone is looking for this solution here it is. I wont bore anyone with code, as the /_api/search has probably been done to death already on other threads.
We are using the outlook tasks API to delete a TaskFolder.
If we create a folder and delete it all goes well. If we then create the folder again with the same name and then delete it again we get the following error when deleting:
409 (Conflict)
{"error":{"code":"ErrorFolderExists","message":"A folder with the specified name already exists."}}
This seems like a bug ?? It probably is moving it to an trashcan internally ? Also from the outlook.com site it does not work.
This is a known problem, and you're guess is correct. Essentially you're trying to copy a folder into the "Deleted Items" folder that has the same name as a folder that already exists there. The workaround here would be to rename the folder with some reasonably unique value (like maybe append a timestamp to the name), then delete it.