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PowerBINoob24
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Data Source Credentials

Evening,

I've been working an a power BI solution in power bi desktop on my laptop.  It is pulling data from excel files on my local hard drive.  I recently published the power bi report to my power bi work space and moved the source files to a sharepoint directory.  Now when I try to refresh the data it fails.  If I go into the settings and look at data source credentials I get the following message:

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When I go to the "Edit Credentials" next to each source I get a window with the path to the sharepoint directory and file, authentication method is "Windows without impersonation" (that's the only option), and the privacy level is set for organizational.  I clik sign in and get an endless loop until I cancel.

 

Anyone have any idea what is happening?  I've tried to refresh from the lineage page and that didn't help.

 

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Figured it out.  There was an issue with the path to the files in power bi desktop.  Once that was corrected and published I had to delete the old data files from the workspace because republishing did not overwrite the file path with the correct path.

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amitchandak
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@PowerBINoob24 , Clear your browser cache and try again. Prefer to use Edge or Chrome browser.

 

In case it still give issue - Log an issue - https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Issues/idb-p/Issues

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Figured it out.  There was an issue with the path to the files in power bi desktop.  Once that was corrected and published I had to delete the old data files from the workspace because republishing did not overwrite the file path with the correct path.

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