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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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fchukoskie
Advocate I
10 years ago

If misery loves company, it got me today too.

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kcantor
Community Champion
10 years ago

This happened to me once. Now, I keep multiple copies of each file. I have one on the server, one on the jump drive and one in the group folder. I work with one and then replace the others slowly and on different days maintaining new versions separately.  Rebuilding one data set was all it took for me to learn that it is easier to save multiples than to recreate. Redundant copies seem antiquated but I am a believer.

  • fchukoskie's avatar
    fchukoskie
    Advocate I
    10 years ago

    Yeah, I've been in that situation (keep multiple backups) with other tools when they were in their early stages, but I'm out of practice. Guess what's old is new again.

     

    If it sheds any light on the problem, when I copied the .pbix to a .zip file, the "DataMashup" file was the one that Windows reported as corrupt...but excluding it from a new .zip archive didn't save me either.


    Back to square 1.

    • rual's avatar
      rual
      Frequent Visitor
      10 years ago

      I tried the following on a corrupted file, and it worked.

      Install WINRAR. 

      Open WINRAR.

      Navigate to your pbix file within WINRAR and select it.

      On the menu bar click Tools>  Repair Archive. 

      Select location to save. 

       

      I've managed to successfully repair 2 corrupted pbix files this way. 

       

      • fchukoskie's avatar
        fchukoskie
        Advocate I
        10 years ago

        No luck with WinRar or any of the other .zip repair tools that I've tried. Glad it got you out of the weeds, though. Good tip to try, should it happen again. Thanks!