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Create a new folder in a drive

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Create a new folder or DriveItem in a Drive with a specified parent item or path.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

Global service US Government L4 US Government L5 (DOD) China operated by 21Vianet

Permissions

Choose the permission or permissions marked as least privileged for this API. Use a higher privileged permission or permissions only if your app requires it. For details about delegated and application permissions, see Permission types. To learn more about these permissions, see the permissions reference.

Permission type Least privileged permissions Higher privileged permissions
Delegated (work or school account) Files.ReadWrite Files.ReadWrite.All, Sites.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) Files.ReadWrite Files.ReadWrite.All
Application Files.ReadWrite.All Sites.ReadWrite.All

HTTP request

POST /drives/{drive-id}/items/{parent-item-id}/children
POST /groups/{group-id}/drive/items/{parent-item-id}/children
POST /me/drive/items/{parent-item-id}/children
POST /sites/{site-id}/drive/items/{parent-item-id}/children
POST /users/{user-id}/drive/items/{parent-item-id}/children

Request headers

Name Description
Authorization Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.
Content-Type application/json. Required.

Request body

In the request body, supply a JSON representation of the DriveItem resource to create.

Response

If successful, this method returns 201 Created response code and a Driveitem resource in the response body.

Example

Request

The following example shows a request to create a new folder in the signed-in user's OneDrive root folder. The @microsoft.graph.conflictBehavior property used indicates that if an item already exists with the same name, the service should choose a new name for the folder while creating it.

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/drive/root/children
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "name": "New Folder",
  "folder": { },
  "@microsoft.graph.conflictBehavior": "rename"
}

Response

If successful, this method returns the newly created folder as a DriveItem resource.

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "createdBy": {
    "user": {
      "displayName": "Ryan Gregg",
      "id": "309EC495-3E92-431D-9124-F0299633171D"
    }
  },
  "createdDateTime": "2016-09-20T14:34:00Z",
  "eTag": "343F1FBD-E9B3-4DDE-BCA7-D61AEAFF44E5,1",
  "id": "ACEA49D1-1444-45A9-A1CB-68B1B28AE491",
  "lastModifiedBy": {
    "user": {
      "displayName": "Ryan Gregg",
      "id": "309EC495-3E92-431D-9124-F0299633171D"
    }
  },
  "lastModifiedDateTime": "2016-09-20T14:34:00Z",
  "name": "New Folder",
  "parentReference": {
    "driveId": "5FE38E3C-051C-4D55-9B83-8A437658275B",
    "id": "E67A8F34-B0AA-46E1-8FF7-0750A29553DF",
    "path": "/drive/root:/"
  },
  "size": 0,
  "folder": {
    "childCount": 0
  }
}

Error response

See Error Responses for more info about how errors are returned.