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willnic's avatar
willnic
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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...
Celia's avatar
Celia
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9 years ago

It's happened to me as well. Basically my two days work. I cannot believe PowerBI is such a unreliable product.

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    keithdeveney
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    8 years ago

    This just happened to me again.  I would have to say it does not happen too much, but when it does it is really frustrating.   I get the approach of saving often, so you don’t lose too much work and I will take this approach when I am in full data model development for now on as I lost about 3 days of work.

     

    We really need an answer as to why it occurs.   I opened the pbix file as a zip file and it revealed that the data model file had a bad CRC.   Many of the files were missing based on looking at a previous version that was still

    operational.    It did not throw any error on the save.  Why are there no checks on the file after it is saved?

     

    Please fix this or provide better approach to keeping this from happening!!   I like Power BI and where it is going but these issues can be showstoppers.