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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...
I had this problem today. Fortunately I published the report with almost all of my work the previous day, so I just downloaded the report from the Power BI online app and refreshed. This would lose any measures created since the previous publish, but serves as a backup.
So, if you have not published your work, it might be a best practice to do so regularly as it serves as a backup.
My machine crashed yesterday when I had a pbix file open and it corrupted the file. Luckily, the most important pieces had been published last week but this still sucks. It sounds like files can corrupt for almost no reason. Ugh.