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How to get special app folder with the new SDK?

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Needs clarification
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Active
Tech stack
java

Research direction

The issue cites the Microsoft Graph special-folder documentation and shows the v5 Java call chain; start by comparing that example with the v6+ Java SDK surface. Identify how the approot folder is represented in the newer SDK and confirm the upload-session usage, then document the resulting guidance.

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I am pulling my hair out trying to upload to special app folder https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/onedrive/developer/rest-api/api/drive_get_specialfolder?view=odsp-graph-online

On 5 series, I was simply doing

val specialAppFolder = "approot" val uploadSession = graphServiceClient .me() .drive() .special(specialAppFolder) .itemWithPath(uploadDestination.removePrefix("/")) // removePrefix because OrganiserConverter.fromConfig will return /path/.. .createUploadSession(.....)

On 6+ I cannot figure-out how to get hold of specialAppFolder in order to createUploadSession().

Could someone with a better understanding point me to the right direction please?

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