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Copy file to another folder with REST API in OneDrive pro (Sharepoint)

I'm trying to copy a file located in user's personal folder (OneDrive Pro) using REST API. The resulting link seems to become too long (???) and server returns 400 BadRequest: The length of the URL for this request exceeds the configured maxUrlLength value.

Url looks like this (HTTP verb is POST): 

https://<company>-my.sharepoint.com/personal/<user>_<company>_onmicrosoft_com/_api/Web/GetFileByServerRelativeUrl('/personal/<user>_<company>_onmicrosoft_com/Documents/<Folder>/<Folder with guid-like name>/<filename>.pdf')/copyto(strnewurl='/personal/<user>_<company>_onmicrosoft_com/Documents/<Same folder>/<another guid-like name>/<same filename>.pdf',boverwrite=true)

Any help or advice on how to overcome this is highly appreciated.

Solution

  • Just in case if anyone else will face this problem and you will have unique id in your SP.

    If first part, which is

    GetFileByServerRelativeUrl('/personal/<user>_<company>_onmicrosoft_com/Documents/<Folder>/<Folder with guid-like name>/<filename>.pdf')

    will be replaced with GetFileById(uniqueId) the limitation would be satisfied and copy will succeed.