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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 

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Nbrown25
New Member
4 years ago

I had the same issue.  In your source file go to File -> Info -> Check for Issues and click Inspect Document.

Leave default selections in the following screen and click “Inspect”

 

My specific issue was due to custom XML data but hopefully the tool will catch it if you have a different but similar issue.