Moving files with Google Drive API v3

Question

Im trying to move a file from one folder to another using the Google Drive API v3. I found documentation how to this here. I used the .NET sample code from the documentation

Answer 1

Ok here is the problem.

var updateRequest = service.Files.Update(file, fileToMoveId);

The method is requiring that you send a body of a file to be updated. This normally makes sense as any changes you want to make you can add to the body.

Now the problem you are having is that you got your file from a file.get. Which is totally normal. This is how you should be doing it. THe problem is there are some fields in that file that you cant update. So by sending the full file the API is rejecting your update. If you check Files: update under Request body you will see which fiends are updateable.

Issue:

Now this is either a problem with the client library or the API I am going to have to track down a few people at Google to see which is the case.

Fix:

I did some testing and sending an empty file object as the body works just fine. The file is moved.

 var updateRequest = service.Files.Update(new Google.Apis.Drive.v3.Data.File(), fileToMove.Id);
 updateRequest.AddParents = directoryToMove.Id;
 updateRequest.RemoveParents = fileToMove.Parents[0];
 var movedFile = updateRequest.Execute();