---
title: "POST /v1/projects/{projectsId}/locations/{locationsId}/folders/{foldersId}:move"
method: POST
path: "/v1/projects/{projectsId}/locations/{locationsId}/folders/{foldersId}:move"
tags: ["projects"]
---

# POST /v1/projects/{projectsId}/locations/{locationsId}/folders/{foldersId}:move

`POST /v1/projects/{projectsId}/locations/{locationsId}/folders/{foldersId}:move`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://dataform.googleapis.com`
- URL: `https://dataform.googleapis.com/v1/projects/{projectsId}/locations/{locationsId}/folders/{foldersId}:move`
- Auth: one of:
  - OAuth 2 and OAuth 2
    - Implicit: `https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth`
    - Scopes: `https://www.googleapis.com/auth/bigquery`
    - Authorization code: `https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth`
    - Token URL: `https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token` scopes: `https://www.googleapis.com/auth/bigquery`
  - OAuth 2 and OAuth 2
    - Implicit: `https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth`
    - Scopes: `https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform`
    - Authorization code: `https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth`
    - Token URL: `https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token` scopes: `https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform`

Moves a Folder to a new Folder, TeamFolder, or the root location.

## Path parameters

- `projectsId` string, required
- `locationsId` string, required
- `foldersId` string, required

## Request body

- MoveFolderRequest: `MoveFolder` request message.
  - `destinationContainingFolder` string: Optional. The name of the Folder, TeamFolder, or root location to move the Folder to. Can be in the format of: "" to move into the root User folder, `projects/*/locations/*/folders/*`, `projects/*/locations/*/teamFolders/*`

## Response `200`

Successful response

- Operation: This resource represents a long-running operation that is the result of a network API call.
  - `done` boolean: If the value is `false`, it means the operation is still in progress. If `true`, the operation is completed, and either `error` or `response` is available.
  - `error` Status: The `Status` type defines a logical error model that is suitable for different programming environments, including REST APIs and RPC APIs. It is used by [gRPC](https://github.com/grpc). Each `Status` message contains three pieces of data: error code, error message, and error details. You can find out more about this error model and how to work with it in the [API Design Guide](https://cloud.google.com/apis/design/errors).
    - `code` integer: The status code, which should be an enum value of google.rpc.Code.
    - `details` object[]: A list of messages that carry the error details. There is a common set of message types for APIs to use.
    - `message` string: A developer-facing error message, which should be in English. Any user-facing error message should be localized and sent in the google.rpc.Status.details field, or localized by the client.
  - `metadata` object: Service-specific metadata associated with the operation. It typically contains progress information and common metadata such as create time. Some services might not provide such metadata. Any method that returns a long-running operation should document the metadata type, if any.
  - `name` string: The server-assigned name, which is only unique within the same service that originally returns it. If you use the default HTTP mapping, the `name` should be a resource name ending with `operations/{unique_id}`.
  - `response` object: The normal, successful response of the operation. If the original method returns no data on success, such as `Delete`, the response is `google.protobuf.Empty`. If the original method is standard `Get`/`Create`/`Update`, the response should be the resource. For other methods, the response should have the type `XxxResponse`, where `Xxx` is the original method name. For example, if the original method name is `TakeSnapshot()`, the inferred response type is `TakeSnapshotResponse`.

## Changes

- **2026-11-03** `aa7c2fe4d752`: 4 info
  - the security scope `https://www.googleapis.com/auth/bigquery` was added to the endpoint's security scheme `Oauth2`
  - the security scope `https://www.googleapis.com/auth/bigquery` was added to the endpoint's security scheme `Oauth2c`
  - the security scope `https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform` was removed from the endpoint's security scheme `Oauth2`
  - the security scope `https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform` was removed from the endpoint's security scheme `Oauth2c`

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/google/apis/dataform/changes/v1/projects/:projectsId/locations/:locationsId/folders/:foldersId:move/post.md)

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