Power BI desktop pbix files backward compatibility issues

[Anonymous]

Hi Team,

I have noticed this strange behavior with Pbix files created using Power BI desktop. We have created data sets and published to power bi online using febraury 2017 version of Power BI desktop. Now, i installed the march update  and when i tried to open the existing pbix files, it throwing error.

This makes us to create the data sets from scratch and republish. Can any of you explain this behaviour and how to resolve this issue,? As it will be a hectic task to recreate all the data sets from scratch.

Thanks in advance.

[v-sihou-msft · Accepted solution]

@Anonymous

What's the error message? What are data sources included in your .pbix?

I haven't encountered this issue. If you can't open it with 2.44.4675.521 version Power BI Desktop, please try to download a .pbix copy from Power BI Service.

Regards,

[Anonymous]

Thank you for the reply.

I havent tried the below option in power bi service. I will try to play around with it.