A report has already been published with this name. Please rename your file and publish again.

[torrezsae]

Hello all, 

As the title suggests I cant overwrite my existing PowerBI report. I am an admin in the report and workspace. The report is connecting to a live dataset. I have tried signing in and out and uploading the file manually within the web version with no success. 

I cannot delete the older report and re-publish because then I'd have to fix countless broken links and re-assign permissions. What can I do?

[kabbinnikhil]

Hi,

Not sure, if this is reolved. I faced the same issue today and it was due to change in the semantic model. Correcting the semantic model fixed this issue.

[happel]

So to summarize @bhavnachalise15's solution which worked for me:
I changed the title of the report on the service, renamed the file name of my pbix file to the same name, opened it and clicked publish. This time it asked me whether I wanted to replace the existing file which had the same name.

[Idrissshatila]

Hello @torrezsae ,

the solution is to rename it in power bi desktop as the name of the main one and publish it, they will ask if you want to replace the file and you say yes.

you then set your permissions.

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[torrezsae]

Hi @Idrissshatila 

The file is already named the same as the one in the workspace. It used to give me the option to replace, but now I receive the error in the title of this thread which does not allow me to replace it. I do not wish to rename anything and simply replace so that I do not have to find everywhere that linked to the old report.

[Idrissshatila]

@torrezsae , so lets try something, create a new workspace (a testing one) and publish it their and if it works then delete the old one from the main workspace and then upload this there.

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[torrezsae]

But this will create a new link for the uploaded report and sever all things that are currently pointing to the report with this link. I'd like to avoid this scenario.

[ray_aramburo]

Rename in the service the older report's dataset and report name. Then try uploading the recent one again. 

[torrezsae]

Will this not create a new link for the uploaded report? I'm trying to keep everything the same.

[bhavnachalise15]

Try Chnaging the Name of the report from the service first and then the desktop report.