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Hi everyone, I worked on my dashboard all day last Friday and forgot to save... Today my laptops battery died and I only have the old version. Does anyone have any suggestion for recovering the da...
That hurts. Normal Office applications have the autosave functionality. You could try going that route and see if you get lucky, but I don't see anything that indicates Power BI has this feature yet.
I do see other people wanting to see autosave become a feature though. You can add votes to the idea. I think I'll do the same. Autosave is one of those things you don't think about until you lose work without it.
For me, in 2025, with Power BI that was installed through the Microsoft Store app, it is located in c:\Users\ ...my username... \Microsoft\Power BI Desktop StoreApp\AutoRecovery
There is also a "TempSaves" folder - I'm not sure what makes something go to TempSave vs AutoRecovery.