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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 dashboard? I would appreciate all suggestions a lot!
Tim Gabriel
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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.
Hello,
I know this post is abit old but I somehow stumble across this issue now and again.
Pop this into your file location
C:\Users\----your user name ----\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Power BI Desktop\TempSaves\
This brings up everything you have not saved.
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Good Morning All,
I spent an hour this morning trying to figure how to resolve this issue. Option A (below) did not work for me because I accidently deleted the recovery file.
Option A: (most common resolution)
Option B:
Option C:
Restore Previous Versions
Choose Previous version and restore
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.
Yupp, it is a painful "lesson learnt" moment.
As I was not able to find any kind of solution and I have reconstructed my old dashboard by now I will mark your reply as a solution so that eventual visitor vote for the idea as well.
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
Hi,
Thanks for the hint. You saved me quite a lot of time. I already started buidling the report again).
Regards
Magomed.
Encountered a likewise problem, and the solution above wasn't the solution. Luckily, after following this (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47440276/where-to-find-pbix-file-after-server-shut-down-unexpect...) post, I could find a auto-recovered version.
Hope this helps any people who encounter the same problem.