Table deleted long time ago not found while refreshing

[gvg]

Hi,

I came up with this strange scenario, when Power BI Desktop is trying to find/refresh table that was deleted long time ago.  It says "Cannot find table 'xxxx'". Even if it "cannot find table" none of my measures have errors, nor any visual is not displayed because of that "missing" table. Has anyone come accross this?

[AnkitKukreja]

Hi @gvg 

Have you refreshed your model after the table was deleted and saved it post that? If yes, then this error should not pop up. If it still persists, go and delete the temp files from the below path:

C:\Users\ankit\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Power BI Desktop\TempSaves. This would not impact any of your data and files, it would just clear the temp files that is being cached.

Post that open your pbix file and click on each of your steps in your query and ensure data gets previewed on every step.

Thanks,

Ankit

[gvg]

Thanks for the hint. Sure I refreshed my model a number of times. I have now cleared everything from TempSaves and also Cache, but the issue is still there. Strangely enough refreshing in Power Query (Refresh All) goes smoothly without any error message. However when I click Refresh in Power BI Desktop itself, I end up with the above mentioned issue.

[gvg · Accepted solution]

OK, thing is that I had a few measures that referred to the deleted table. Surely they were with errors. It looks like Power BI analyzes everything (tables, measures) defined in Desktop and tries to load them alongside what is defined in Power Query. Do not know what is the logic behind this, but that's how Microsoft designed it.

[martim0305]

Your 5 years old post just saved me. Amazing!

[Anth79]

Had the same issue. Was sure I hadn't used the deleted table in any measures, but checked each one and what do you know? Yep, removed the offending measure and it was all good. 

[Anonymous]

Hi @gvg,

It sounds like internal dependency related issues that power bi does not contain functions to troubleshoot and fix this scenario.
Perhaps you can try to rebuild your report on the new pbix file and check if this issue appears again or try to use the tabular editor or SSMS to open the instance to check them.

Tabular Editor 

Power bi data model instance 

Regards,

Xiaoxin Sheng