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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 c...

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".

Helper II

9 years ago

Anonymous

In both locations I see this:

I'm guessing this is not a good thing.

Anonymous
Not applicable
9 years ago
Try to display hiden files, and see if there is any file in the folder, or in Temp folder. To more details see the event viewer from your system, and try to find out why the file corrupted.
- kincaids
  Helper II
  9 years ago
  Anonymous,
  
  There are no hidden files in any of the folders, including the temp folder. I've opened the Event Viewer, but I don't have the foggiest idea of what I'm looking for or how to even navigate this. Any tips would be helpful. Thanks for all your help to this point.
  
  Update: upon further research, I did find this - does this help at all? I can't tell, though, if it's the error that caused the need for me to open from my autorecovery backup, or the error in trying to save over the old file.
  - alanhodgson
    Solution Supplier
    9 years ago
    Hey kincaids,
    
    Definitely not good, hope you can get it back.
    
    That error is a .NET Framework error. I would recommend reinstalling the .NET Framework on your machine, make sure you are running version 4.5 or higher.
    
    Also, just to cover all basis, I would run the System File Checker tool for your machine.
    Follow instructions:
    1. Open Command Prompt (Run as Administrator)
    2. Type "sfc /scannow"
    
    Hope this helps,
    
    Alan

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