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Incremental Numbering appending to filename whenever new item is added in SharePoint Online
Ironically, while you want your files being duplicated with increasing numbers and no one seems to be able to help, exactly this seems to happen here, but I do not know why and so I am searching how to turn it off 🙂
Incrementing numbers and appending to a filename can be done quite easily with a flow in Power Automate. But it's a very old thread so I won't post the steps here unless someone really needs them.
What is it you are trying to turn off Alex Schuster
Rob
Los Gallardos
Microsoft Power Automate Community Super User
can you please post the flow, I tried to make a quick search but I did not find it.
Thank you very much for your support.Hi, I am really needing to have incremental number in filename in Flow. Would you please share the code?
Thanks
The feature VPO365 wants.
But I just found out is is not related to SharePoint. A user in my company is editing documents locally, and something seems to create copies, with numbers at the end of the files being increased. OneDrive syncs this to SharePoint, and others wondered where all those files came from.
Alex Schuster we are having a similar auto-incrementing issue with OneDrive &B SharePoint. Did you ever find what was causing it for you?
JeffD_SBC We did not dig further into this. As I wrote above, this was not about SharePoint, just some local software creating copies of files that were synced to OneDrive.
Whatever it was, the user who experienced (and reported) this behaviour turned it off, and all was good.
