Unable to open document error

[shephee]

Help!  I have been working on a Power BI file with no issues and now I am getting the following error message when trying to open it.  The file will not open.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Anonymous]

Hi @shephee ,

The error message indicates that a specific lineage tag (a8e32384-9ee0-4c81-89d4-34a3bda2c7) either doesn’t exist or references an object that isn’t statically defined by a query.

I think you can check if the lineage tag exists in your model. If not, you might need to recreate it. You can also verify that the object associated with the lineage tag (such as a table, column, or measure) is correctly defined in your queries.

For the error related to an object with a lineage tag already existing, consider scripting out the entire model in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS).

Open Power BI Desktop, click File -> Open -> Select the corrupted pbix file. If you can see a yellow ribbon saying “open in autorecovery mode..” Click on it and the file will be opened with the version before it got corrupted. Also, you can go to the auto recovery folder to see if there is any recovery file there. You can read this topic: Solved: Corrupted PBI Desktop - Microsoft Fabric Community

If it does not help , you can also update the desktop to have a try.

Best Regards

Yilong Zhou

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[selimovd]

Hello @shephee ,

looks like the file is damaged.

I would try a few things:

1. Do a copy of the file, try to rename it with the extension .zip and see if you can unpack it. Check if anthing looks broken.

2. I would try to convert it with pbi.tools to a folder structure and if that works, you can convert it back to a pbix-file.

If you need any help please let me know.
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Best regards
Denis

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[shephee]

Thank you for your response.  Unfortunately for me this did not work.  😞