driveItem: move

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Important

APIs under the /beta version in Microsoft Graph are subject to change. Use of these APIs in production applications is not supported. To determine whether an API is available in v1.0, use the Version selector.

Move a driveItem to a new parent.

To move a driveItem to a new parent item, your app requests an update to the parentReference of the driveItem to move. The move is a special type of Update operation. Your app can combine moving an item to a new container and updating other properties of the item into a single request.

When a driveItem is moved within the same site or container, all existing sharing links continue to work. If the driveItem is moved to a different site or container, existing sharing links no longer work.

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	Type	Description
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.
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. Optional.

Request body

In the request body, supply the new value for the parentReference property. Existing properties that aren't included in the request body maintain their previous values or the properties are recalculated based on changes to other property values. For optimal performance, include only the values that change and omit the unchanged ones.

Note

When items are moved to the root of a drive, your application must use the actual ID of the root folder as the parent reference instead of the "id: root" syntax.

Response

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

For information about how errors are returned, see Error responses.

Examples

Request

The following example moves an item specified by {item-id} into a folder in the user's drive with the ID new-parent-folder-id.

HTTP

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

{
  "parentReference": {
    "id": "new-parent-folder-id"
  },
  "name": "new-item-name.txt"
}

C#

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

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Beta.Models;

var requestBody = new DriveItem
{
	ParentReference = new ItemReference
	{
		Id = "new-parent-folder-id",
	},
	Name = "new-item-name.txt",
};

// 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);

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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

CLI

mgc-beta drives items patch --drive-id {drive-id} --drive-item-id {driveItem-id} --body '{\
  "parentReference": {\
    "id": "new-parent-folder-id"\
  },\
  "name": "new-item-name.txt"\
}\
'

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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 $v0.*

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

requestBody := graphmodels.NewDriveItem()
parentReference := graphmodels.NewItemReference()
id := "new-parent-folder-id"
parentReference.SetId(&id) 
requestBody.SetParentReference(parentReference)
name := "new-item-name.txt"
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)

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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();
ItemReference parentReference = new ItemReference();
parentReference.setId("new-parent-folder-id");
driveItem.setParentReference(parentReference);
driveItem.setName("new-item-name.txt");
DriveItem result = graphClient.drives().byDriveId("{drive-id}").items().byDriveItemId("{driveItem-id}").patch(driveItem);

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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 = {
  parentReference: {
    id: 'new-parent-folder-id'
  },
  name: 'new-item-name.txt'
};

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

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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\Beta\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\Generated\Models\DriveItem;
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\Generated\Models\ItemReference;


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

$requestBody = new DriveItem();
$parentReference = new ItemReference();
$parentReference->setId('new-parent-folder-id');
$requestBody->setParentReference($parentReference);
$requestBody->setName('new-item-name.txt');

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

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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.Beta.Files

$params = @{
	parentReference = @{
		id = "new-parent-folder-id"
	}
	name = "new-item-name.txt"
}

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

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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_beta import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph_beta.generated.models.drive_item import DriveItem
from msgraph_beta.generated.models.item_reference import ItemReference
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = DriveItem(
	parent_reference = ItemReference(
		id = "new-parent-folder-id",
	),
	name = "new-item-name.txt",
)

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

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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

Response

The following example shows the response for this move request.

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

{
  "id": "0123456789abc",
  "name": "new-item-name.txt",
  "parentReference":
  {
    "driveId": "11231001",
    "path": "/drive/root:/Documents",
    "id": "1231203102!1011"
  }
}