Update DriveItem properties

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Update the metadata for a driveItem by ID or path.

You can also use update to move an item to another parent by updating the item's parentReference property.

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

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

Request headers

Name	Description
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.
Content-Type	application/json. Required.
if-match	String. If this request header is included and the eTag (or cTag) provided doesn't match the current eTag on the folder, a 412 Precondition Failed response is returned.

Request body

In the request body, supply the values for properties that should be updated.

Existing properties that aren't included in the request body maintain their previous values or are recalculated based on changes to other property values. For best performance, your app shouldn't include properties that haven't changed.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 200 OK response code and updated DriveItem resource in the response body.

Example

This example renames the DriveItem resource to "new-file-name.docx".

HTTP

PATCH https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/drive/items/{item-id}
Content-type: application/json

{
  "name": "new-file-name.docx"
}

C#

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;

var requestBody = new DriveItem
{
	Name = "new-file-name.docx",
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Drives["{drive-id}"].Items["{driveItem-id}"].PatchAsync(requestBody);

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

CLI

mgc drives items patch --drive-id {drive-id} --drive-item-id {driveItem-id} --body '{\
  "name": "new-file-name.docx"\
}\
'

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Go

// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v1.*

// Dependencies
import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
	  graphmodels "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/models"
	  //other-imports
)

requestBody := graphmodels.NewDriveItem()
name := "new-file-name.docx"
requestBody.SetName(&name) 

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
items, err := graphClient.Drives().ByDriveId("drive-id").Items().ByDriveItemId("driveItem-id").Patch(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Java

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

DriveItem driveItem = new DriveItem();
driveItem.setName("new-file-name.docx");
DriveItem result = graphClient.drives().byDriveId("{drive-id}").items().byDriveItemId("{driveItem-id}").patch(driveItem);

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

JavaScript

const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

const driveItem = {
  name: 'new-file-name.docx'
};

await client.api('/me/drive/items/{item-id}')
	.update(driveItem);

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PHP

<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\DriveItem;


$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);

$requestBody = new DriveItem();
$requestBody->setName('new-file-name.docx');

$result = $graphServiceClient->drives()->byDriveId('drive-id')->items()->byDriveItemId('driveItem-id')->patch($requestBody)->wait();

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PowerShell

Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Files

$params = @{
	name = "new-file-name.docx"
}

Update-MgDriveItem -DriveId $driveId -DriveItemId $driveItemId -BodyParameter $params

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Python

# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.models.drive_item import DriveItem
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = DriveItem(
	name = "new-file-name.docx",
)

result = await graph_client.drives.by_drive_id('drive-id').items.by_drive_item_id('driveItem-id').patch(request_body)

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Response

If successful, this method returns an driveItem resource in the response body.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/json

{
  "id": "01NKDM7HMOJTVYMDOSXFDK2QJDXCDI3WUK",
  "name": "new-file-name.docx",
  "file": { }
}

Error responses

See Error Responses for details about how errors are returned.