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Helper IPower BI Files Won't Open After February Update
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.
Advocate IThanks everyone for the information. I uninstalled current verion of Power BI Desktop and installed the November version, renamed the [Measure] table to [MeasuresTable] in the Model view and published the file to My Workspace to test it. Sure enough, as soon as I have repointed my thin report to use the revised semantic model, all the visuals broke. To get around this, I opened an original semantic model containing the Measures table yet to be renamed, pasted all pages from my thin report into the pbix file containing the model, essentially creacting a regular ("thick") report file, and then renamed the Measures table as mentioned above. This way the visuals remained intact as all the references updated automatically. Once done, you can split the report and the model into two separate files again if needed.