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Anonymous
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6 years ago
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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 ...
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  • edhans's avatar
    edhans
    6 years ago

    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.

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    Anonymous
    6 years ago

    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.

     


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Syndicate_Admin
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2 years ago

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.