GET /sites/{site-id}/drive/root:/{item-path} stopped working

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I am using a an API call to find a file in one of our SharePoint sites, I made a flow that was running fine until Monday of this week. The API returns the "itemNotFound" error.

I have no idea what's wrong, if I call the search function the file comes back fine, but if I specify the item path then I get the error... completely at a loss what happened and how to fix it. We are using this system to creat automatic files on the server so I really need to get this fixed as soon as possible.

Search API that works fine:

https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/sites/{*site id removed for privacy*}/drive/root/search(q='testfile.docx')

response (abreviated):

			"createdDateTime": "2023-09-27T13:21:24Z",
            "id": "0124G6SZYNCIZEZOC6DVELGBOBQTHBRUUG",
            "lastModifiedDateTime": "2023-09-27T13:22:06Z",
            "name": "testfile.docx",

Search API that returns 404 error:

https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/sites/{*site id removed for privacy*}/drive/root:/Shared%20Documents/testfile.docx

response:

{
    "error": {
        "code": "itemNotFound",
        "message": "The resource could not be found.",
        "innerError": {
            "date": "2023-09-28T16:51:18",
            "request-id": "40aeed24-7698-437e-8ce3-9a62369fbd6a",
            "client-request-id": "a9ce4951-f6af-7ee7-a8a5-a77083a88717"
        }
    }
}

I created a file at the root of the Shared Documents on SharePoint to avoid having an issue with a long path, still the same issue.

I appreciate if you can shed some light on this.

Regards,

Angel

Accepted Answer

Hi @Angel Escamilla,

Per my test, I can reproduce your issue like following

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After doing some research, I found that /sites/{site-id}/drive is to access the default drive (document library) for the given site. We don't need to add Shared%20Documents in the path. The api is to get the items in subfolders of Shared%20Documents. I created a folder in the Shared%20Documents named test and a docx file named test.docx in the folder. Then we can use the api like following

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And we are unable to get the files in the root path of the library, for example I created a file called test.txt in Shared Document. The api will also return 404. For these items you can get tem by following api

GET /sites/{site-id}/lists/{list-id}/items/{item-id}/driveItem

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