Deleting Sub Folders

[Brycekauffman]

Hi,

I am trying to create a flow where I can delete a large number of subfolders within a folder. I want to keep the master folder but need to get rid of all its contents. This action will need to be completed once a year. Does anyone have any ideas or solutions?

[FoDelement]

Where are you deleting the folders from?

One Drive, SharePoint, A File Share, Your local computer? 

This sounds more like a PowerShell thing than a Flow thing. Just my 2 Cents.

[Brycekauffman]

I am trying to delete them off SharePoint Online

[FoDelement]

Okay, last question.

You said 

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@Brycekauffman wrote:

 I want to keep the master folder but need to get rid of all its contents.

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Does that mean, any files and folders in the root directory as well? 

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[RobElliott]

HI @Brycekauffman, you can do this using the image below. So in this example I have a master folder called Accreditation and then a subfolder called New with a lot of subfolders in it. You can delete New and all the sub folders in it - but not the main Accreditation folder - by:

1. Add an action for Get folder metadata by path. It uses the folder path of /Accreditation/New.
2. Add a Delete item action using the list name Accreditation and the Id is the Get folder metadata ItemId from the dynamic content.

Rob
Los Gallardos
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[Brycekauffman]

It looks like my folders are set up in a document libreary and not a list. There for in the Delete Item flow it is not recongizing my folder structure in the "list name" section. What would be a good substitute? @RobElliott 

[RobElliott · Accepted solution]

My list is also a document library. Just type in the document library name as a custom value and it will find it with no problem.

Rob
Los Gallardos
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