Report saving error and PBIX file automatically deleted from file folder

I have been using the same report file for several months in PBI Desktop. Every day I typically make edits, save to my company shared drive folder (F drive), and publish to the web. Yesterday I start...

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Juliet

Regular Visitor

7 years ago

Is this issue still ongoing ?

We are experiencing the problem with Power BI Desktop April 2019 release.

Users open a large pbix file from our shared drive (SharePoint site) and starts work. On attempting to save the file back to SharePoint, Power BI Desktop freezes unrecoverably and the file is deleted from the SharePoint site. The issue is intermittent, so no real way to consistantly reproduce it.

Could this be a problem with Sharepoint saving instead of Power BI Desktop?

Does this problem happen for others that are not saving to SharePoint?

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