How to Retrieve Children of OneDrive Personal Folder Named 'v1.0' Using MS Graph ?

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How to Retrieve Children of OneDrive Personal Folder Named 'v1.0' Using MS Graph ?

Jareth Lomson 1

Hi,

I’m trying to retrieve the children of a folder named v1.0. The response is a 404 error.

According to the instructions here, the request should be GET /me/drive/items/root:/Test/v1.0:/children

Interestingly, when the folder name is v1.1, the children are correctly retrieved.

Has anyone encountered this issue or knows why this might be happening?

Thanks,

------ Edit ---------

After a deeper look, it appears that there are other issues closely related to the one described above. Following commands are also impacted: Get driveItem, Create a new folder in a drive, Move a DriveItem to a new folder, Upload or replace the contents of a driveItem.

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Anonymous

2025-01-15T07:10:14.9533333+00:00

Hi @Jareth Lomson

Is there anything else I can help you with regarding this issue? If you still need further help, please feel free to let me know. If your question has been solved, then you can click "Accept Answer", which may help members with similar questions find the answer easily. Thank you very much!
Jareth Lomson 1 Reputation point

2025-01-30T08:28:47.7366667+00:00
Hi,

After further investigation, it seems that the issue is not limited to child retrieval. An error occurs when the following requests are made:

Get metadata of a v1.0 folder (doc here)
GET /me/drive/root:/<path>/v1.0 is ko GET /me/drive/items/<item-id> is ok

Create a subfolder within a v1.0 folder (doc here)
POST /me/drive/items/root:/<path>/v1.0/children create a subfolder v2.0 in a new _api subfolder (??)
POST /me/drive/items/<item-id>/children is OK

Perhaps I missed something, but It seems that my support plan does not allow the creation of support requests.

Some screenshots here

Initial Test folders

Try to get metadata of v1.0 folder

Get metadata of v1.1 folder

Try to create a folder within a v1.0 folder

Folders after previous request

Thanks,

Jareth

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Anonymous

2025-01-15T07:10:14.9533333+00:00

Hi @Jareth Lomson

Is there anything else I can help you with regarding this issue? If you still need further help, please feel free to let me know. If your question has been solved, then you can click "Accept Answer", which may help members with similar questions find the answer easily. Thank you very much!
Jareth Lomson 1 Reputation point

2025-01-30T08:28:47.7366667+00:00

Hi,

After further investigation, it seems that the issue is not limited to child retrieval. An error occurs when the following requests are made:

Get metadata of a v1.0 folder (doc here)
GET /me/drive/root:/<path>/v1.0 is ko GET /me/drive/items/<item-id> is ok

Create a subfolder within a v1.0 folder (doc here)
POST /me/drive/items/root:/<path>/v1.0/children create a subfolder v2.0 in a new _api subfolder (??)
POST /me/drive/items/<item-id>/children is OK

Perhaps I missed something, but It seems that my support plan does not allow the creation of support requests.

Some screenshots here

Initial Test folders

Try to get metadata of v1.0 folder

Get metadata of v1.1 folder

Try to create a folder within a v1.0 folder

Folders after previous request

Thanks,

Jareth

Answer 1

Anonymous

Hello Jareth Lomson,

Thank you for reaching out to Microsoft Support!

After our test, when the folder name is v1.0, it runs well, and the test results are as follows:

Screenshot 2025-01-13 015820

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Please try again, or use the id of the item to get the children, as follows:

Screenshot 2025-01-13 020223

Reference document:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/driveitem-list-children?view=graph-rest-1.0&tabs=http

Hope this helps.

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Jareth Lomson 1 Reputation point

2025-01-16T17:38:05.4833333+00:00

Hello Yakun and thanks for your answer,

I have triple-checked and unfortunateliy, I must confirm that the my test result is still negative.

Retrieval with the item ID works but as with all workaround, it is quite cumbersome and not efficient. It is necessary to split the path to retrieve the parent ID, make a first request, extract the child folder ID and then perform a second request.

Please note that my subscription is "Microsoft 365 Family". The test results may differ with a different license.

Some screenshots below

The Test folder

Query for child folder v1.0

Query for child folder v1.1

Thanks again

Jareth
Anonymous

2025-01-17T07:52:39.5366667+00:00

Hello!

The two test screenshots you provided are both the query subfolder v1.1, please provide the screenshots of the query subfolder v1.0 again.
Jareth Lomson 1 Reputation point

2025-01-17T08:05:06+00:00

Indeed. Here is the correct screenshot
Anonymous

2025-01-20T07:22:06.7266667+00:00

In your case, we've done repeated tests.

For business accounts, all is well.

For personal accounts, when the folder v1.0 does not contain any files, you will get the same error 404, when the file is added in v1.0, it is working fine.

Please check your v1.0 folder for the above reasons.
Jareth Lomson 1 Reputation point

2025-01-21T07:57:55.7233333+00:00

Hello,

Following your message, I have also performed multiple tests.

My personal onedrive contains several v1.0 folder. Most of them contain files and were created in 2018. The error is the same when a query is performed with the path of these folders.

Regarding the folders created for the tests, files exist. They were empty (their size was 0 byte) during my first test. I have add some characters to increase their size and error still occurs.
Anonymous

2025-01-21T10:01:06.6233333+00:00

Hello Jareth Lomson,

For this situation, we cannot repeat, I suggest you open a support ticket with Microsoft Support to get help from the API owner.

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