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File corrupted or not valid
Hi, i was working on a power bi file, saved it, closed it and when i tried to open it again it didnt let me do it because it said that the file was corrupted or was an invalid type o file.
I have been searching for a solution and even found some post here about it but most of them said it was a bug (the post were from 2016-2017) so i was wondering if there is a solution for that or do i have to rebuild my file?
Thanks.
I believe you will have to rebuild. If you have a Pro license you can open a support ticket at the bottom of this page but it won't be fast (usually takes a few days to resolve) and if it was a true corruption caused by your HD, network drive, SharePoint site, etc. they may not be able to recover.
Hopefully you have a backup not too old. I keep PBIX files on SharePoint so they are constantly versioned.
Anonymous
There is a auto recovery feature in Options, and please update the power bi desktop to the newest version, and rebuild the model see you the issue still occurs.
Paul Zheng _ Community Support Team
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.
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I believe you will have to rebuild. If you have a Pro license you can open a support ticket at the bottom of this page but it won't be fast (usually takes a few days to resolve) and if it was a true corruption caused by your HD, network drive, SharePoint site, etc. they may not be able to recover.
Hopefully you have a backup not too old. I keep PBIX files on SharePoint so they are constantly versioned.
Anonymous
There is a auto recovery feature in Options, and please update the power bi desktop to the newest version, and rebuild the model see you the issue still occurs.
Paul Zheng _ Community Support Team
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.
The same thing happened to me. What I did was, as I had the file published in a workspace, I opened it there, in the upper left corner I gave it "downloading this file", first option and it downloaded a file that fortunately I managed to open without inconvenience. Then save 3 backups just in case and that's it.
