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"Limit entries to folder" not working within large SharePoint library

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Hi everyone,
I'm trying to use Power Automate to list all files within a specific folder in a SharePoint document library. However, when I use the "Get files (properties only)" action and try to use the "Limit entries to folder" feature, it doesn't show any folders for some reason. The library is quite large (thousands of files/folders), so I'm wondering if that's causing the issue.
Has anyone else run into this? Is it a limitation with large libraries, or am I missing something? 
I have the pagination set to the max, which is 100,000 I believe? Still it doesn't seem to work.
I was just playing around with the "List Folders" I'm not using it anywhere. My problem is that I want to list files only from a certain folder inside that Library but I can't seem to figure out how to do that when "Limit entries to Folder" feature won't show any of the folder structure. I tried typing in the path manually but giving error of "Folder not found" 

Also, is there a way to manually specify the folder path if the picker doesn't work, and what’s the correct format for that?
Any advice or workarounds would be appreciated!

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    try adding manually the path starting with library
    example i have folder in sharedocuments library i should be adding path as
    /Shared Documents/Folder
     

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    Please let us know if the issue still exists. If it has been resolved, kindly close the thread by accepting the solution

     

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