Google Drive Failing to Find Parent Folder

Need help
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I know a number of people have had issues with Google Drive and I’ve reviewed those to make sure it’s not the same and I believe it is not the same. My issue is I have a flow which creates a Google Doc. That Doc just gets dumped in the My Drive root folder of Google Drive. It doesn’t ask me where to put it so I have to move the file. So I call the Google Drive module to move the file and unfortunately, although I can I put the File ID in, it can’t come up with a parent folder and it times out with an error which says an “internal error occurred, please contact support”.

I also tried using the Google Drive module ‘Get File’ and it gets the file but after that the ‘Move’ module still doesn’t see the parent folder. Frankly I don’t think there’s any difference between the File ID that is in the Get File module and the original Google Doc module.

Has anyone else encountered this and or do you have a workaround or is this just a bug?

Many thanks in advance.

Kind regards,
Paul

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I’ve created a workaround that works only it’s a bit of an inefficient use of resources. I use the ‘Get File’ module from Google Drive after creating the Google Doc, then use the ‘Duplicate File’ module which allows me to copy it to a Shared Drive or anywhere else on Google Drive that I like, and then delete the original Google Doc file withn the 'Delete File module. Although it works, it’s a bit inefficient because it takes three modules to do but one module should be able to do…

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Hello @Paul_Lange, how many folders are there in the drive? If you press the refresh button on the folder dropdown, does it still throw an error?