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Power BI does not support 32 bit Access DB
Hi all,
Both 32-bit and 64-bit are supported when it comes to importing Access files. The only requirement is to have the ACE OLEDB provider installed on your machine, in a bit-ness that matches the one of your Power BI Desktop installation.
If you have Office installed in your machine, the ACE OLEDB provider comes with it and it matches the bitness of Office. This might be an issue if you're running 32-bit Office in a 64-bit environment as there is no way to overwrite the version of the ACE OLEDB provider and, by default, Power BI Desktop will be installed in 64-bit.
Your options are either to install 64-bit Office (not likely, I assume, due to other dependencies), or to install Power BI Desktop 32-bit. You can pick the exact bitness and language that you want from our Advanced Download page:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=45331
We're currently looking at other solutions that don't require a change to your installation, but don't have a timeline to share at this stage.
Hope this helps.
M.
Hi,
I had the same issue (see error message below)... so I uninstalled my 32-bit version of office... and installed 64-bit version... restarted 2X... and am still getting the same error... i.e., unable to Load the Access database tables into Power BI. Hope to can help. Thanks.
Version of Access on my machine:
Did you delete the prior connections and make brand new ones? Also sanity check your new Access install by opening it and looking at the tables. You might copy a duplicate of the Access file and change its name slightly....and then attempt to import the tables of this new file.
Thanks for your reply. I deleted the prior connections, backed up the database, restored it... and still get the 64-bit error message.
I guess I didn't ask - - you did do what the message says to do right? ....downloaded the ODBC connector....
I'm not sure that I did. Could you supply best link for that? Thanks!