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TimGab's avatar
TimGab
Frequent Visitor
10 years ago
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File recovery

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...
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  • KGrice's avatar
    KGrice
    10 years ago

    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.

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Sixteacup
Microsoft Employee
9 years ago

Auto recovered file by default with this new update will save in the following location for a Windows 10 machine:

 

C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Power BI Desktop\AutoRecovery

Magomed's avatar
Magomed
Helper I
7 years ago

Hi, 

 

Thanks for the hint. You saved me quite a lot of time. I already started buidling the report again).

 

Regards

Magomed.