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Jim_
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9 years ago
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DataSource.Error: Could not find file...

When I refresh a project I am working on I get the error listed above.  I can navigate to the file and open it.  Is there any known reason that BI would lose the ability to connect to a file?    
  • v-huizhn-msft's avatar
    v-huizhn-msft
    9 years ago

    Hi Jim_,

    Please click the file->Options and Settings->Data Source Settings, you will get the following data source settings navigator. Then select change source(highlighted in red line), please check the path and open file as right format.



    what's your data soure? I post an example using .xls file above. Please check if it works fine. Please share more details if you have still find other issue.

    Thanks,
    Angelia

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Anonymous
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9 years ago

Does anyone have insights into the M function that can be implemented to handle the non-existence of a file being used as a data source?  I am building a report template that will be used for multiple data sets, and some files will occassionally be missing, so I'm trying to implement a solution that can handle this scenario.  Table.IsEmpty does not resolve the issue, since there is no empty table.

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dkay84_PowerBI
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9 years ago

You can wrap anything in M with a "try <whatever you are trying to do> otherwise <do something else>"

 

Not exactly sure how to implement in your situation, but maybe there is a way to have PBI ignore the cases where the file is missing (and throws and error).