Grafana API won't move dashboards to new folder unless the contents have changed

[johncornish]

What happened:
We edited our provisioning/dashboards.yml file we're using on our Grafana deployment to change what folder the dashboards show up in on the Grafana UI. Upon redeploy / restart, only the dashboards that had their contents changed since the last restart were moved into the new folder, while the remaining 5 stayed stuck in the old one.

What you expected to happen:
Any time you make a change to dashboard provisioning folder location, I would expect it to move all dashboards into the new folder and delete the old one. However, neither is happening.

How to reproduce it (as minimally and precisely as possible):

1. Create a dashboard JSON file
2. Create a dashboard provisioning file that puts that JSON into a folder, e.g. "Folder A"
3. Start / restart Grafana
4. Edited the provisioning config (e.g. change folder to "Folder B"), but leave the dashboard JSON unchanged
5. Start / restart Grafana
6. Go to the UI and notice that both "Folder A" and "Folder B" are present, and that your dashboard should still be stuck in "Folder A"

Anything else we need to know?:
Nah

Environment:

• Grafana version: v7.1.5
• Data source type & version: Prometheus
• OS Grafana is installed on: Ubuntu
• User OS & Browser: MacOS & Chrome
• Grafana plugins: Statusmap by Flant JSC
• Others:

[hugohaggmark]

Thank you for reporting this @johncornish, I've confirmed this on latest master 9a241a2

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[samjewell]

not stale