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Cannot open dataset: something went wrong, unexpected failure
I cannot open my dataset with PowerBI Desktop even though it was working fine before, and even now is working normally in PBI service and I can connect to it live. When I try to openn it I get th...
deepak91g
Resolver II
Resolver IIHi Anonymous
You can download PBIX from PBI Service and try opening that in Power BI desktop. Looks like, original file is corrupted ( not sure).
Link for how to download PBIX from powerbi.com (if its previously published)
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/create-reports/service-export-to-pbix
Thanks
Deepak
Thanks Deepak, but that's exactly what I tried already and I get the error once I try to open the donloaded pbix file.
I can understand if the working file gets corrupted, but the freshly downloaded file from the service? doesn't sound likely