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msalam
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9 years ago
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PBIX file size problem

.My PBIX file size grew illogically and i'm not able to find out what is causing that size. I even deleted all pages from the report and all datasets and relations... and the file still shows 4.2 MB...
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    Brian_M
    9 years ago

    Got it!

     

    Open the Layout 'file' in Notepad++ and you will see large swathes of image information, which looks like the scatter.jpg and other image artifacts that were actually in your Static Resources folder are actually baked into the Layout 'file' as well.  

     

    You should be able to avoid the issue if you start from scratch and are very selective about the images that you introduce. Alternatively, you may well be able to compare the Layout 'file' for a new blank pbix with the one you have, and scrape out the jpg and png junk that you don't want.

     

    e.g

    "scatter.jpg","name":"scatter.jpg","content":"data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAABAAAAAJACAIAAACc94OCAAAAAXNSR0IArs4c6QAAAARnQU1BAACxjwv8YQUAAAAJcEhZcwAACxIAAAsSAdLdfvwAAP+lSURBVHhe7J0FfBy38sfXSdM2Tdo0VKb3+l77ysxNm1IaZmZmZuaGmZmhScPM0DAzg0NOYmam/29mtLq989k+U5r2f9+PrZNGo9FIq9VKe3t3RqIbNw+W+HgJCXlFyDkpEZ8YhzCBkQiL00LaS2Qc+BkXR55PmLTw1u178RDEUWO5Ha46hC6CcnhE1IQlWyoNmF6iy7jb93wgiUlQpkRNQ6YTlBxhbBwLULNkpx2UVbGUUAdR6lK4WtYpttaxrQT0Q2w8GhHv7x9I44a7xaEKjqGgciZZLE5JlEyxHTle9wJDnusw59xtP5gCoiBZB8...

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Anonymous
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6 years ago

I've recently had the same problem and my file size also grwe about 4Mb, from 1.6Mb to 5.7Mb after some small changes. Even after deleting all pages, leaving only an empty one and deleting all tables, except the fact table, the file size was 5.7Mbytes. I could never get back to the originally 1.6Mb file size.

It seems to by a Power BI bug, and the size increase is very similar to yours, which makes me believe that it's not only a specific image that was inserted and left as "undeletable trash".