Moving a File From One Google Drive to Another Google Drive using {{file.id}}

[David72]

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Hi I have files with different names uploading to a Google Drive at random times and I want to move these files to another Google Drive.

I created a "pabbly" using "New File" as the trigger.

The second step is to "Copy a File" and I use {{file.id}} as the File (which is a required field), but I receive an error code of 404 and that the file is not found. How do I create a "pabbly" that will move new files to a different Google Drive?

 

[Fagun Shah]

You can't use Copy a File action between 2 different google drive accounts.


For your usecase, you need to make sure that file in Gdrive1(trigger gdrive) is public.

And then use Upload File action with Grdrive2 connection to upload Gdrive1 file from trigger to Gdrive2.

 

[David72]

This may seem to be a dumb question, but when it asks for the URL of the file (Upload action), since I don't know what the files are or when they will be uploaded, what should I put?

Additionally, there is another nuance to my use case. GDrive1 is "shared" with me and I'm not the owner. Will this still work as designed?

 

[Fagun Shah]

This may seem to be a dumb question, but when it asks for the URL of the file (Upload action), since I don't know what the files are or when they will be uploaded, what should I put?

Additionally, there is another nuance to my use case. GDrive1 is "shared" with me and I'm not the owner. Will this still work as designed?

I haven't tried the that shared part.

This might hep to understand how to setup teigger part -

And this might help tounderstand how to setup action part -

 

[David72]

Thanks for the videos. I watched them. I have created the trigger and it appears to be working in test mode and I have "Response A" and "Response B", but it will not provide me a URL so I can do the action.

 

[Fagun Shah]

You can try passing url in upload file action this way - https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=FILE_ID_FROM_TRIGGER_STEP