Move folder to folder

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Hi,

I have a folder in Google Drive that I create every time, it is always in a fixed place with the same name. Because I create it every time, it always has a new folder ID

(I have to do this because I can’t copy folders in Drive, I can only move them)

I now want to create a new folder in make.com, where I get a new folder ID, then I want to move the previously named folder that I created manually into this already created folder.

So far so easy, but I can’t do it:

Get a folder ID for a path: that doesn’t work because I can’t enter the path manually, it’s just mapped and i can not find a path-map

Search for files and folder - I only get a file ID but no folder ID - I can easily move individual files into this created folder, because I get file IDs everywhere, but no folder ID

Get folder path for an ID also doesn’t work because I don’t get a Folder path

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Hi Chris, welcome to the community. When you create new folder you will get the FolderID but when you search a file/folder you will get only File ID if you search for folders/files . You can use it in the next modules and get into the folder.

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here i searched for a folder and it returned me a File ID

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Hi thanks for your answer.
And that is my current problem, because I manually create a folder on GoogleDrive. And I need the folder ID for this folder and I can’t get it.

There may be a way to do this. I have solved it in the meantime by working via FTP and then loading all the data from there into a folder in Drive created by make in GoogleDrive.

Unfortunately, this just wastes ops and its very slow.

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the file Id acts as folder id when you do search a file/folder and select folder in the settings

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Ahhhhh, so that’s what you meant! Thank you, it’s something you really have to figure out first :smiley:

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Yes even i was confused at the beginning and then i compared the id from the sharing link with the file id