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kincaids's avatar
kincaids
Helper II
9 years ago

Disaster...please help!

I was working away on a report that I've been building for weeks and many of you have helped me on.  Power BI Desktop crashed and upon restarting the program, I had the AutoBackup ribbon appear.  I clicked on the button to open the backed up file.  Everything looked fine.  I went to "save as..." and selected the normal file name.  I got the warning of "this file already exists, do you want to save over it?" and I selected Yes.  The system crashed again.

 

Upon reopening Power BI again, I selected the file on the startup window and get this error:

 

What do I do?  Have I lost all of this work for good?

Need Help

11 Replies

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Not applicable
    9 years ago

    Try to locate the file in the auto recovery folder:

     

    C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Power BI Desktop\AutoRecovery

     

    Change <username> for your user. If you found the file, save with another name, or in a new location.

    • kincaids's avatar
      kincaids
      Helper II
      9 years ago

      Unfortunately, the file isn't there.  What was there was simply an "Untitled," empty file.  Any other ideas/suggestions?

      • Anonymous's avatar
        Anonymous
        Not applicable
        9 years ago

        In the project folder and/or autorecovery folder, try going to the folder properties and try to recover the file in the "previous versions".

  • tringuyenminh92's avatar
    tringuyenminh92
    Memorable Member
    9 years ago

    Hi kincaids,
    Before having downloading pbix file from PBI service or auto recover file in PBI desktop, i used to got this situation in July or August..Could not remember. But i tried to clone the data model by zip file as v-micsh-msft said, but it was not working. so i have to begin again:( it's so sad.


    Have you ever published this file to Power BI service in this month?, if yes, it could be downloaded the previous version of that published.

  • abatbayar's avatar
    abatbayar
    Regular Visitor
    8 years ago

    Did you find any way to solve this disaster? i have been in same situation. I have developed a report for one month and it is corrupted now so sad. thanks hope you reply me