Blob folder creation

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Blob folder creation

Nandan Hegde 36,151 MVP Volunteer Moderator

By any chance is it possible to create a folder in blob with name :

UK/Test.

Note>> this should be 1 folder itself with the above name and should not create 2 folder with Test being the sub folder.
My guess is nope, but wanted to confirmation that there are no escape characters etc to create it

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Hi @Nandan Hegde

You can find all the details relating to blob naming and virtual hierarchies here https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/storageservices/naming-and-referencing-containers--blobs--and-metadata.

To answer your question, if you are using a slash "/" it will simulate a folder hierarchy. For example:

You have 2 blobs called

"folderA/folderB/file1.txt"
"folderA/folderB/file1.txt"

within the storage account it would simulate the folder hierarchy like

folderA  
 |_folderB  
   |_file1.txt  
   |_file2.txt

whereas in reality the blobs are as below:

  folderA/folderB/file1.txt  
  folderA/folderB/file2.txt

If you created a third blob called " folderC/folderD/file3.txt" and then deleted file3.txt, it would delete folderC and folderD because they don't actually exist, they are just part of the blob name.

I hope this helps provide you with the information you need. If it does, please make sure to mark the question as answered so it helps other people in future.

Kind regards

Alistair

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