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Regular Visitor

7 years ago

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File contains corrupted data

Hi Previously, PowerBI Desktop was working very smoothly. Today, when I stared the application, I got this message "File contains corrupted data". I googled for the reason and got that this is d...

v-frfei-msft
7 years ago
Hi azitony,

1. Please delete your desktop firstly.

2. Delete the Cache and CEF folders in the paths as below.

C:\Users\username\Microsoft\Power BI Desktop Store App

C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Power BI Desktop

3. Reinstall your Power BI desktop and try again.

Regards,

Frank

Pepok_14

Frequent Visitor

6 years ago

Hi,

I had same problems with several excel files. I tried all mentioned steps from this topic, but without success. I have tried to remove workbook protection "Restrict access (Highly confidential)" in my case and now it works. I'm able to connect from Power BI to excel without error msg. Maybe this advice helps someone.

Peter