How to trigger a flow when a document is pasted in a synced sharepoint folder?

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I want to trigger a flow whenever a file is added to a Sharepoint folder.

When using the "When a file is created in a folder" trigger, the flow is triggered if I upload a new file from the Sharepoint Web UI or if I save a new file into the synced folder on my computer.

But if I copy/paste or move a file from my computer's filesystem to the Sharepoint synced folder, the flow isn't triggered.

Do you have any follow-up questions? – Arun Vinoth-Precog Tech - MVP Dec 10 '19 at 16:57 — Arun Vinoth-Precog Tech - MVP, Dec 10 '19 at 16:57
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score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

This is expected behavior and it is by design it seems.

Files uploaded to SharePoint have a modification date of today and the document that I copied locally and Synced to SharePoint kept their original date. ...

A lot of the Flow technology depending on web hooks and one of the things webhooks does is use a last change token. This is to ensure that you only pickup changes since a certain date.

... make sure that you upload document to SharePoint rather than synchronising document to SharePoint.

Uploading documents to SharePoint using OneDrive/Sync and Microsoft Flow ignores these

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I’ve not found a solution for this yet. The only real option at the moment is to use a recurring flow.

How to trigger a flow when a document is pasted in a synced sharepoint folder?

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