How to "Get a Folder ID for a Path" on a Shared Drive (on Google Drive)?

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On Google Drive, I have an existing script that creates a sub-folder within a sub-folder (with a name specified by an input variable). So to do that I have to do this:

“Get a Folder ID for a Path” module → “Create a Folder” module that uses that folder ID as the “New Folder Location”

That works fine with a location on “My Drive”, but apparently the “Get a Folder ID for a Path” module doesn’t work with a Shared Drive? I need to start working with files on a Shared Drive, but now I’m stuck because Make doesn’t seem to have a way to get a Folder ID on a Shared Drive?

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To answer my own question, it seems that for whatever reason “Get a Folder ID for a Path” has this limitation that prevents it from working with shared drives, but you can use “Search for Files/Folders” instead, which can sort of do the same thing, but not always as easily. It seems really arbitrary there is that limitation on “Get a Folder ID for a Path".

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