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PowerWhy
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File saving as latest power bi version if I have 2 versions of power bi installed?

Hi everyone,

 

I have an old power bi version (dec 21) and the microsoft store power bi (currently showing as dec 22) installed on my computer (we have some legacy reports that show bugs if they switch between the 2 versions).

 

In the last few weeks I've noticed that if I open a dec 21 version file in the dec 21 version of power bi and save, then the new file is being saved as a dec 22 pbix file. Please do you know why this has started happening / what is the solution?

 

Many thanks,

 

CM

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foodd
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@PowerWhy , a safe solution would be to run a virtual machine with a separate version of Power BI Desktop instead of hoping for concurrency and everyone playing nice in the sandbox.

 

It seems you haven't received any feedback or updates regarding your question or a status update. If you've already resolved your issue, could you please share the solution with the forum so that others may benefit? Also, if possible, please mark that post as a solution. Thank you!

 

Issues

If you have found a true bug or issue, you can make a post to the forum to let others know (and that would be very nice of you to do so). But if you want to get it fixed, you should post it in the Issues/Ideas (it varies) area of the community. Specifically, you should post it here:

Power BI - https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Issues/idb-p/Issues
PowerAutomate - https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/I-Found-A-Bug/bd-p/BugFound
PowerApps - https://ideas.powerapps.com


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If you have a new idea for functionality or how something should work, you can certainly start a thread on the community to solicit feedback on your idea, but you should also post the idea in the ideas section of the website and solicit others to vote on your idea. The development teams use the Ideas area of the communities to build their development pipeline and a significant amount of weight is placed on Ideas that have lots of votes versus those that do not. The ideas areas of the communities are here:

Power BI - https://ideas.powerbi.com
PowerAutomate - https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Flow-Ideas/idb-p/FlowIdeas
PowerApps - https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/PowerApps-Ideas/idb-p/PowerAppsIdeas

 

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