Desktop Refresh Error: Query "references other queries or steps ... "

On nearly every report I have in Power BI Desktop, I refresh the data and get this error message on random tables/queries in my dataset. To 'fix' it, I have to open the Power Query Editor, refresh al...

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Neil_Message

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1 year ago

I am also getting this error. On one query it is a simple append of the tables before it that I have cleaned.

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