Copy Down Error- Failed to Add Merged File to Folder

[Victoria DeRoner]

I have a yearly process of setting up a Google Form with a copy down formula and using auto crat.  The process has worked fine the past 3 years. I tried setting it up following the detailed notes and directions I have for myself this year and got the error below which prevented the file from going to the correct Google Drive folder.

Document successfully created; Document successfully merged; !!!!ERR: Failed to add merged file to folder due to Google error: API call to drive.files.patch failed with error: Increasing the number of parents is not allowed:

This copy down formula uses a a dynamic folder reference in conjunction with autocrat that in the past has correctly filed the templated document based on the form submission to the corresponding folder that is outlined on the second sheet of the spreadsheet. 

Does anyone know what it means by "increasing the number of parents is not allowed"? I'm assuming it's referring to something about the parent folder, but this is the same process I've used previously with no changes.

Thanks for your help.

[Joseph Schmidt]

The error message is likely from Autocrat.

Did CopyDown create a link to the folder in each row?

Do you have write access to the folder?

Is the output pointing to a shared drive?  Autocrat does not work with a shared drive.

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[Victoria DeRoner]

Thank you for your quick reply.

Copy down did create a link to the folder in the row.

And I was signed into the account that owns the folder.  I set everything up under that same account.

The output doesn't go to a shared drive.  It's a shared folder only. But again, the account that everything was set up under owns all of the files and folders being referenced (the Google Form, response sheet, template document being used in Autocrat, and the folders items are being filed to). 

[Victoria DeRoner]

When I say shared folder I mean a Google Drive folder that has the sharing permissions set up so that other are able to edit or view the folder.  But the owner of the folder is the account in which everything was created for this project.