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Removing data from .pbix file?
I've just been trying this myself and observed different behaviour depending on how you save the .pbit
File > Save As > .pbit = File size roughly equal to the original report
File > Export > Power BI Template = Significantly reduced file size
You are totally right. Exporting as PBIT did the trick.
It's unfortunate that I never received your reply when you made it. (Came across it by accident today and after testing can confirm that it works.)
Thank you very much.
The templates are reduce to the same size for both "Save As" and for Export - it looks like Microsoft may have fixed the issue with Save As Template since this discussion took place over a year ago. I started with a 41 MB file (one million rows), and the PBIT templates save and export as 24 KB.