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Anonymous
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7 years ago

Power BI File disappeared

Hi,   So I have been working all day long on a dashboard and saved it multiple times. Other colleagues could even open the updated files on their pc trough the network drive it was saved on. I tri...
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6 years ago

The same happened to me and two files disappeared.

While I was working PowerBI crashed and two files I was working on disappeared from the folder and they weren't even in the PowerBI's "Recent elements" list.

 

This behaviuor makes PowerBI very unreliable.

 

Regards

 

Gabriele

 

Software Used:

PowerBI (Versione: 2.76.5678.782 64-bit (dicembre 2019))

Windows 10 Enterprise 64 Bit

 

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6 years ago

Hi Anonymous ,

 

Yes, I agree with you.

 

I've found a kind of workaround on how to be able to still recover your files.

When Power BI crashes, you'll most likely get an error message. Don't press okay, but rather close Power BI with the taskmanager. This way you force Power BI to shut down and in my case when you open Power BI again you can use the recovered file.

 

When you do press okay, there is a high change that you can still recover the file but it is not guaranteed, that's why I use this workaround.

 

This is not ideal, but it may help you...