In this post we take a look at how select folders in SharePoint can be deleted using Power Automate.

Intro

A short post this time, but one I wanted to document as it caused me a minor headache in something I was recently building. Folders…there is no easy way to delete select folders from within a flow in Power Automate – no in-built action or anything similar – so once again it is our handy API calls to the rescue!

In researching how others had solved this problem I came across this community thread that held the answer, but my example was a tiny bit different, so follow along as we delete some folders.

The scenario

I have a flow that creates temporary files that are stored in a sub-folder (temp) within a document library in SharePoint. Once the files are created, the flow merges them into a single file and I then need to delete the sub-folder and it’s contents.

The solution

• In a Power Automate flow add a send a HTTP request to SharePoint action
• Enter the relevant site address
• Select DELETE as Method
• For Uri, enter the following:

_api/web/GetFolderByServerRelativeUrl('/sites/SITENAME/LIBRARYNAME/FOLDERNAME/SUBFOLDERNAME')

• Leave Headers and Body empty

Your action should look like the following:

That’s it! This action will now delete the specified folder when it runs each time.

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