“How can I take all the videos currently stored in users OneDrive and copy them to a SharePoint site using Power Automate?”
There’re two places where you can store files in the M365 platform. You can use OneDrive as a personal storage or SharePoint as a shared one. But sometimes the distinction is not that clear. Some files that should be in SharePoint are still in OneDrive of one specific user and shared to everyone else. Which is not a good approach – shared files should be in a shared location. And Power Automate can copy them for you.
Get the file from OneDrive
The standard approach would be to ‘Get file content’ and use it to create the file in SharePoint. But this action has 2 problems. Firstly, you can’t access other user’s OneDrive. And secondly, you can’t get a content of files bigger than 500 MB.
Since this approach won’t work, you should take one step back. OneDrive is basically a SharePoint document library hidden behind a different look (same as team in Teams). That means you can use also the SharePoint actions to access OneDrive.
Use the SharePoint actions
Using the SharePoint actions ‘Copy file’ or ‘Move file’ solves these two problems. You can access files on other user’s OneDrive (only the ones that are shared with you) and you can copy even big files.
Add the ‘Copy file’ action and configure it as below.
Current Site Address
This is the address of the user’s OneDrive which you can get from the url. Open your OneDrive in a browser and copy the address until the /_layouts. It should end with the owner’s email address with replaced characters @ and . (and maybe more).
On the screenshot below it’s the OneDrive that belongs to a user dev@tomriha.com
Take the url, change the email address, and use it as the Current Site Address.
File to Copy
The second field is the path to the file you want to copy. As already said, it has a SharePoint site on the background so you can’t use just the visible folder path. You must include also the library where the file is stored. It’ll be probably ‘Documents’ library, but you can confirm again using the url. Open any folder in the OneDrive and check the url, it’ll have the library name near the end.
The screenshot below is url address to a folder called Diving.
Take the document library, combine it with the visible path leading to the file, and use it as the File To Copy.
The remaining fields
Fill the destination fields with the desired SharePoint site location and you’re done. The flow will take a file from that OneDrive and store it in a SharePoint site.
Summary
You should remember that OneDrive is just a SharePoint site with a different look, and the process to copy files is similar to other file copying Power Automate flows. The tricky part is that you must know the exact name of the file and on whose OneDrive it’s located. Once you have this information (and the file is shared with you) you can easily take it from there.