Calculated columns/tables deleting themselves

[Anonymous]

I'm not sure if this is the best place to post this, but I can't find anything on this topic, so here goes:

Recently it's been happening that occasionally when I go to create/edit a calculated column, Power BI seems to lag a little bit to display the formula bar and then... blanks out the formula of either the column I clicked on or the one I was on previously, and then validates it immediately (as if I'd pressed enter, which I haven't). The result is that whatever formula I had is gone, I can't CTRL-Z to get it back, and if the formula was for a calculated table instead of a calculated column, the entire table just disappears as if I'd deleted it. Again, with absolutely no way of getting it back.

I save frequently so I haven't had any huge issues with data loss yet, but has this happened to anyone? Am I accidentally hitting a gesture while clicking that could explain this? Or is it just a bug? What should I do and/or where should I go to fix it?

[Greg_Deckler]

Huh, only way I can think of to troubleshoot that would be to post a video of it.

[Anonymous]

Unfortunately this is for my work, which means a) work computer with no screen capture software that I'm aware of and b) really sensitive data that I'm not sure I'd be able to censor correctly on video. It doesn't help that while this has happened a handful of times now (3-4 or so?), it's been really inconsistent so I can't predict it.

For what it's worth it seems to have happened more frequently on the larger of the two files I'm on.

[zoloturu]

Hi @Anonymous,

You can enable tracing and try to troubleshoot it by your hands.

Details - https://ruiromanoblog.wordpress.com/2016/01/08/power-bi-desktop-trace-logs-analyser/

Regards,
Ruslan
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