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Helper IPower BI Files Won't Open After February Update
I have several PBI files that have been in production for years. This morning, the files will not open, stating that the table name " Measures" is unsupported...
These files use the convention of adding a space before a folder name to organize measures. If necassary, I could rename these, however, I cannot open the file to rename them.
I've attempted opening the files in Tabular Editor to rename, and I've tried converting the pbix to zip, extracting the zip, then looking for the offending name in the DataModel file. I've also tried installing the November 2024 version of PBI. None of these has worked and I still get the same result.
EDIT RESOLVED: The november version of Power BI worked as mentioned below. When I removed Power BI, I didn't realize I was removing 1 of 2 versions installed on my machine, so when I installed the November update and opened the files, I was still innadvertently using the February version.
Download an older version of Power bi from https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/fundamentals/desktop-latest-update-archive?tabs=powerbi-desktop I downloaded November 2024 Update (link in the botom just before the previous month's header), I had some alert notifications, but file opend, rename the table in it, save the file and go back to the new version.
I had the same problem. My table was named [ Measures ] = BLANK(), but in the January update it doesn't support [ ] table naming, even if I try to name the table that way in the new version, I just can'tExact same problem today and took me a while to find an older version of Power BI Desktop to download (odd considering Microsofts recommendations are often to rever back to older versions in the event of a bug). Thanks to the links above I've managed to go back to November and rename my measures table. It was common practice for me to have a table called measures so I have many files affected. It would have been more helpful if we had been able to open the PBIX and then be forced to rename any tables with protected words.
