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willnic
Advocate II
10 years agoPBIX 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...
StefanVerwey
9 years agoRegular Visitor
It seems to use ONLY "Save As" and each time save it to a new date and time stamped file.
Each Saved version will give you the certainty of a good saved version.
Tip, Save and Close Power BI several times during the say versus several Saved files can carry a corrupt status.
By opening regularly a saved version and later on saving it to a new time stamped file and close you Desktop, seems to be the safer way to compile PBIX files.
PBIX files seem to be VERY flaky.
Files name example: "name yyyymmdd hhmm.pbix"
This will also help to keep your files in a descending order and easy to get to the latest version