Adding File to Folder in Google Drive Script

Question

Google finally shut of the Docslist class and my script stopped running this week. Here is what my code was.

  var folder = DocsList.getFolderById('XXXXXXXXX');
  var document = DocsList.getFileById(newSS.getId());
  document.addtoFolder(folder);

So I was trying to switch over the use DriveApp instead. So here is the code that I have switched to.

  var folder = DriveApp.getFolderById('XXXXXXXXXX');
  var document = DriveApp.getFileById(newSS.getId());
  document.addFile(folder);

I'm getting an error "TypeError: Cannot find function addFile in object". I think I'm using the addFile wrong, but I'm not exactly sure what I'm doing wrong. Any help?

possible duplicate of [How to update DocsList to DriveApp in my code](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29777164/how-to-update-docslist-to-driveapp-in-my-code) — Zig Mandel, Apr 22 '15 at 04:11

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 22 '15 at 03:22

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Ok I figured it out. I had it backwards when using "addFile". I needed it to be

folder.addFile(document);

not

document.addFile(folder);

answered Apr 22 '15 at 03:22

Evan Morris

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score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 11 '19 at 01:21

Not sure this will be helpful for others coming here, but I had to figure it out in my head that even though I had the file id stored in a variable I still had to getFileById(). Otherwise, my script would not know what file to add to the folder.

var newDoc = DocumentApp.create('Testing Team Drive MoveTo').getId();
var teamDrive = DriveApp.getFolderById('xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx');
var file = DriveApp.getFileById(newDoc);
var moveFile = teamDrive.addFile(file);

Adding File to Folder in Google Drive Script

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