Issue moving DriveItem to M365 Drive in a sub-site fails with “Requested move requires an async response” error

Eli Jones 1 Reputation point
2021-03-04T16:17:01.867+00:00

I am trying to move a DriveItem located in the root Web of an M365 site to a sub-web of the same site -

Source Web: mydomain.sharepoint.com/sites/Graph - List: Documents

Destination Web: mydomain.sharepoint.com/sites/Graph/SubwebA - List: Documents

The code doing the move with the Graph API SDK v3.25.0:

var client = GetGraphClient();

var destDriveItem = new DriveItem
{
   ParentReference = new ItemReference
   {
      DriveId = destDriveID,
      Id = destDriveFolderID
   }
};

var response = await client.Drives[driveID].Items[sourceDriveItemID].Request()
   .UpdateAsync(destDriveItem);

All IDs are valid. When UpdateAsync is finished, I get this error:

ServiceException: Code: invalidRequest
Message: Requested move requires an async response, add 'Prefer: respond-async' to allow
Inner error:
AdditionalData:
date: 2021-03-04T15:44:38
request-id: 2aa656e2-fc4b-4314-846b-b62680a15ece
client-request-id: 2aa656e2-fc4b-4314-846b-b62680a15ece
ClientRequestId: 2aa656e2-fc4b-4314-846b-b62680a15ece

at Microsoft.Graph.HttpProvider.SendAsync(HttpRequestMessage request, HttpCompletionOption completionOption, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
at Microsoft.Graph.BaseRequest.SendRequestAsync(Object serializableObject, CancellationToken cancellationToken, HttpCompletionOption completionOption)
at Microsoft.Graph.BaseRequest.SendAsync[T](Object serializableObject, CancellationToken cancellationToken, HttpCompletionOption completionOption)
at Microsoft.Graph.DriveItemRequest.UpdateAsync(DriveItem driveItemToUpdate, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
at GraphToM365Test.Program.MoveDriveItemToDestinationAndBack(String sourceDriveItemId) in C:\Dev\StratusApps\GraphToM365Test\GraphToM365Test\Program.cs:line 166
at GraphToM365Test.Program.MainAsync(String[] args) in C:\Dev\StratusApps\GraphToM365Test\GraphToM365Test\Program.cs:line 62

The same code works if I move the DriveItem between two Drives (Document Libraries) in the same site. The issue is probably related to this GitHub issue (although that is for moving in the same Web): https://github.com/microsoftgraph/microsoft-graph-docs/issues/2890

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  1. Amos Wu-MSFT 4,051 Reputation points
    2021-03-05T03:04:39.153+00:00

    According to the documentation, Items cannot be moved between Drives using this request.
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