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willnic
Advocate II
10 years ago

PBIX file corrupted

I worked on a model last week where I added some calculations. Now when I try to open it up I get the error message saying "Unable to Open Document" with the file past listed, saying it is "corrupt o...
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Greg_Deckler
Community Champion
10 years ago

Seems like it is truly corrupted at the file structural level. So, all of the data is there but something in the structure of the file has become corrupted such that it essentially is no longer a valid "zip" file. So when trying to view it via native zip tools, it is not really a valid file. Wonder if it happened during file compression, something went haywire.

 

Sorry man, you're probably out of luck unless you can find some sort of "zip repair" tool that will work on it. There are some available, Bing "zip repair tool" and you will get hits from CNET and PC World.

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willnic
Advocate II
10 years ago

Got it -- thanks so much for your advice!

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    annwallinger
    Advocate I
    10 years ago

    The same thing just happened with my team. We added a calculation, saved and closed the file and then were no longer able to use it as it says it is corrupt. This appears to be a bug.