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doshib
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9 years ago
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Background image stuck!

  Hi all,   I imported a 10mb image into Power BI desktop as a background image. I didn't change anything else. The size of my file went up 10mb to 40mb. I then deleted this image, but my file si...
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    doshib
    9 years ago

    managed to view files and the solution you suggested worked perfectly!

     

    thank you!!

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Anonymous
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9 years ago

Hi doshib,

 

You can rename the pbix file to xxx.zip. Open the zip file and you can find the resource file at below path: Report\StaticResources\RegisteredResources

 

 

You can delete these img files to cut down the file size.

 

Regards,

Xiaoxin Sheng

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Jonwig
Frequent Visitor
9 years ago

Hi,

 

I am seeing the same issue here, but on testing the file size I still seem to have some considerable bloat after removing the files from the PowerBI report, then renaming and removing from the Zip.

 

In testing

I added 2 PNG files at 200KB to a 1.7MB Pbix. The size increased to 2.7MB (with no other changes), I guess it is not using the same compression. After fully(?) removing the files my Pbix is at 2.3 (first delete from Pbix, then go into ZIP and delete).

 

This was just a test file. I have my production Pbix which is now at 9MB using the same datatables as my test(!) and am worried it will get bloated over time as I use images a fair bit for backgrounds etc.

 

Any ideas.

 

Thanks

 

Jon