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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...
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spring
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6 years ago

I had this problem occur to me too on the April 2020 version "pbix is corrupt or an invalid report file".... none of the solutions I found on this community worked. The solution that worked for me and saved me alot of heartache at losing all my work was navigating to the following folder and then reopening a previous version - C:\Users\*yourusername*\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Power BI Desktop\TempSaves.  Hope this helps someone too!

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Auktavius
Regular Visitor
4 years ago

How do we mark this as a solution. This saved me all kinds of work. Thank you!

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    rachaelwalker
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    4 years ago

    I deleted my cache files right before I saw this. This is happening on multiple files. I right clicked power bi desktop and went to app settings and turned off Background apps under app permissions and they are now working.