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Unable to save changes under Options/Settings in Power BI Desktop
Hi,
One of my co-workers is unable to save changes in the Option Settings.
We tried different options to change, but it doesnt work. No error message is shown.
Steps that my colleague performed:
In Power BI Desktop:
1) Go to File/Option and Settings/Options
2) Select Preview Features and check 1 or more features.
3) Click 'OK' button to save the changes.
Result: After clicking OK, nothing happens. No error message, the option screen is still visible and you are not able to save the changes.
I've never seen this before, and it seems to be a very local problem for just this user.
Does anyone know what could be the cause of this, and how to solve it?
28 Replies
I was changing some settings under Security, but had the same problem.
Eventually, I noticed that there was an error in another tab. In my case, in the 1st tab:
I didn't change that value, but it was wrong and it didn't allow me to save any other settings. I changed it to 400 and all saved properly.
So, maybe, if you're having this problem, try to see if there's any error in other tabs preventing you to save.
Syndicate_AdminAdministrator
Hello, I had the same error and what helped me was to enter option by option until in my case I saw that in Save and recover there was an error message when I wanted to save the autosave file and that's why it didn't allow me to make any changes until I solved that error.
I recommend that you click on all the options until you see if there is an error in any of them and correct them so that it allows you to click OK when you want to make other changes
- Syndicate_Admin
Thank you, although this answer is almost a year old, today is April 2025, it had always been useful for me to install and uninstall, but not this time, and your response was effective, even if I disable the save in folder option is when the error appears, you change to a correct path, even if you uncheck it and the OK button works again.
That's all the mistake. Thank you
It worked for me..
Thanks
Thanks
Hello.
Something worked for me.
1. Uninstall Power BI
2. Delete all other files and clean registry
3. Install Power bi
4. Open Power BI - still can not save changes in option .OK button was grey
5. In Otions - Scripting in lagunage R - I deleted all directories - OK button turns green
6. Click on OK and afther this everithnig has started to work properly.
Hope this helps you.
Thank you.
For what is worth, I had too this kind of behaviour and it was due to Power BI pointing at the wrong directories for Python and R installs, correcting them enabled settings menu to work properly.
reubworkResolver I
This resolved it for me. Thanks!
Just doing the step 5, solved the problem. Thnx.
Arnaud_RHelper II
I confirm Just doing the step 5 solved the problem:
In Otions - Scripting in lagunage R - I deleted all directories
johanjscHelper I
Had the same issue, but our solutions was to remove the directory in Python Scripting instead of R. We had a wrong folder in Python options, which showed a warning in that section.
After deleting the wrong setting, it worked.
As prescribed by Evl-1973 i am also suffering from the same problem in latest verson of Power Bi. I hve un-install it several time and try to do it but it didnot work could you help me to mitigate the problem its really creating the problem in my report generation. Because of which i am using the old verson of Power BI.
- Syndicate_Admin
The exact same thing is happening to me, I want to modify some boxes in the settings and it doesn't let me apply them, what is the solution?
If you don't have any locations defined in the option settings for Python or R, check also the Save and Recover section of the settings. There is a location for Autorecovery that needs to be set and mine was corrupted (even though I repointed it at the same location in order to get the error to clear.) Once the issue was cleared, I was once again able to save my option settings. Microsoft should post an error message instead of relying on sluething to find the hidden error.
I have the same issue. My solution is uninstalling then re-installing power BI app. It worked
Same for me, Version: 2.116.966.0 64-bit (April 2023)
Same for me.
Has anyone fixed this ?Do not work for me.
Same problem.
Version: 2.117.984.0 64-bit (may 2023)
- Arnaud_R
Both the April and May versions have the same issue.
