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willnic's avatar
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...
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.

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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!

    • ckodadek's avatar
      ckodadek
      Helper I
      10 years ago

      This just happened to me at a very inconvenient time when dealing with measures...
      Any updates on how to uncorrupt?

      • KathyPullin's avatar
        KathyPullin
        Frequent Visitor
        10 years ago

        Any update or fixes available on this issue?