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azitony
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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...
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    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

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Anonymous
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4 years ago

Hi

 

Have tried all the step by removing the password from the source excel file , removed 2 app/data files & reinstalled the desktop and still havin the same error message. 

 

All my 6 source file are exactly the same format & formula but only 2 files that repressenting this year are having the error message . seems bit weired . did i done something wrong somewhere ? is there a way to fix this ?

 

 

Thanks