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azitony
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...
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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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ravelezp
Regular Visitor
6 years ago

The solution that you proposed is not working. We deleted the files and reinstall them but its still showing an error. We had to delete the model's tables and reconnect them to the origins. Our heavy files 05 databases are in Excel, saved in SharePoint and from this origin connected to Power BI, however they update without a problem from the web based Power BI, but from Power BI Desktop some update and some don't