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.

HTTP

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

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

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 Folder",
	Folder = new Folder
	{
	},
	AdditionalData = new Dictionary<string, object>
	{
		{
			"@microsoft.graph.conflictBehavior" , "rename"
		},
	},
};

// 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}"].Children.PostAsync(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 children create --drive-id {drive-id} --drive-item-id {driveItem-id} --body '{\
  "name": "New Folder",\
  "folder": { },\
  "@microsoft.graph.conflictBehavior": "rename"\
}\
'

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 Folder"
requestBody.SetName(&name) 
folder := graphmodels.NewFolder()
requestBody.SetFolder(folder)
additionalData := map[string]interface{}{
	"@microsoft.graph.conflictBehavior" : "rename", 
}
requestBody.SetAdditionalData(additionalData)

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
children, err := graphClient.Drives().ByDriveId("drive-id").Items().ByDriveItemId("driveItem-id").Children().Post(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 Folder");
Folder folder = new Folder();
driveItem.setFolder(folder);
HashMap<String, Object> additionalData = new HashMap<String, Object>();
additionalData.put("@microsoft.graph.conflictBehavior", "rename");
driveItem.setAdditionalData(additionalData);
DriveItem result = graphClient.drives().byDriveId("{drive-id}").items().byDriveItemId("{driveItem-id}").children().post(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 Folder',
  folder: { },
  '@microsoft.graph.conflictBehavior': 'rename'
};

await client.api('/me/drive/root/children')
	.post(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;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\Folder;


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

$requestBody = new DriveItem();
$requestBody->setName('New Folder');
$folder = new Folder();
$requestBody->setFolder($folder);
$additionalData = [
	'@microsoft.graph.conflictBehavior' => 'rename',
];
$requestBody->setAdditionalData($additionalData);

$result = $graphServiceClient->drives()->byDriveId('drive-id')->items()->byDriveItemId('driveItem-id')->children()->post($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 Folder"
	folder = @{
	}
	"@microsoft.graph.conflictBehavior" = "rename"
}

New-MgDriveItemChild -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
from msgraph.generated.models.folder import Folder
# 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 Folder",
	folder = Folder(
	),
	additional_data = {
			"@microsoft_graph_conflict_behavior" : "rename",
	}
)

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