Copy files between SharePoint libraries (Power Automate)

Posted On July 1, 2020

Copy files one by one can be painful if you’ve got a lot of them or if you need to do it regularly, there has to be a way how to automate this with Power Automate.

Let’s build a simple workflow to copy all files from one location to another on user request. That means we want to start from Instant flow using Manually trigger flow trigger.

Type in your Flow name and select *Manually trigger a flow*

Add *New step: Get files (properties only)*

Select *Destination Site Address* and for the *Destination folder* field, instead of click into the field click on the folder icon on the right side to display selection of all available libraries on the destination site. Also select what should happen it file already exists on the destination site.

Now you can find it under *My flows* and run it by pressing the *Play* button.

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Hello and welcome!

My name is Tom and I live in the Czech Republic. I’ve been automating business processes on the Microsoft SharePoint platform for almost 10 years, currently as a freelance consultant.

I believe that everyone can automate part of their work with the Power Automate platform. You can achieve a lot by “clicking” the flows in the designer, but you can achieve much more if you add a bit of coding knowledge. And that’s what this blog is about.

To make the step from no-code Power Automate flows to low-code flows: using basic coding knowledge to build more complex yet more efficient flows to automate more of your daily tasks.