Power Automate – Create File action – resolving error – Error code: ‘400’, Message: ‘The requested action could not be completed. Check your request parameters to make sure the path ” exists on your file system.

Hi All,

Greetings for the day 🙂 LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL 🙂

Today new issue and solution 🙂

Background / Details :

• In our organization we have one request from one of our user for downloading the file from SharePoint online site document library to local machine (server)
• Since this is continuous process we need to automate this process and hence the Power Automate comes into the picture
• As we need to download the file on local machine / server we require On-premises data gateway
• Detailed article on On-premises data gateway is on its way 🙂 stay tuned 🙂
• We have successfully installed On-premises data gateway
• Started creating Power-automate
• We are using “Create File” action of Power-automate as

• To use this action we need to create / use connection to File System as shown in below figure

• We need to set following properties
  • Authentication Type – Windows
  • Username and Password

• When we click on “Create” button we are getting an error as shown in above figure

Error / Issue :

Error code: ‘400‘, Message: ‘The requested action could not be completed. Check your request parameters to make sure the path ” exists on your file system. clientRequestId: 764B8BD4-2C7A-41A6-826C-889611929224’. More diagnostic information: x-ms-client-request-id is ‘764B8BD4-2C7A-41A6-826C-889611929224’.

Solution :

• After bit googling it found that we didn’t specified domain while specifying Username
• As we specified domain for Username, it worked like charm. In our case – WORKGROUP\prasham as

• As we specified DOMAIN with Username, connection created successfully
• We are able to fetch folders from local file system as

• Selecting folder from local drive

Thanks for reading 🙂 HAVE A GREAT VACATIONS AHEAD 🙂