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Anonymous
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Remove data source

Hello everyone,

 

I have an issue on removing an excel source from power BI.

I have removed the source from desktop power BI model and data area, as you can see in picture below.

Unfortunately I can still see the source in the Data source setting and when loading the data online I have issue on refresh the app (see error below).

 

My question is: how do I remove the excel file from the data source setting?

 

Anyone can help?

 

Thank you

 

Model and Data areaModel and Data areaData source settingData source settingIssue when refreshing the dataIssue when refreshing the data

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Icey
Community Support
Community Support

Hi @Anonymous ,

 

Is this problem solved?

 

 

Best Regards,

Icey

Icey
Community Support
Community Support

Hi @Anonymous ,

 

To delete the data source in current report, you need to delete all queries or tables connect to this specific data source manually. Then this data source will disappear correspondingly in Data Source Settings. Please check.

 

 

Best Regards,

Icey

 

If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

Have similar issue - switched queries to new source, now the old data source is not used in any query but its still on the list and I cant remove it. Triple checked in advanced editor - the source I need to dissapear in not used anywhere

nandukrishnavs
Community Champion
Community Champion

@Anonymous  Open EditQuery and remove the source.


Regards,
Nandu Krishna

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