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hammerblue
Helper I
10 years ago

Unable to save document

Suddenly I'm having trouble saving a pbix file. Same dataset I've used before. The size is around 295MB, far smaller than 1GB. I think the only difference now is that I'm using images (PNGs, a couple...
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dsandberg
Advocate I
9 years ago

I've also experienced this problem with Version: 2.42.4611.701 64-bit (January 2017) and was able to isolate the issue to a "[" character in the file name of an image I inserted into my .pbix file. I was not able to recover the .pbix file after I deleted the image from the .pbix file. Also, I could not 'Save As' and save the .pbix file to a seperate file, which caused me to lose all my edits.

 

Consequently, I exited the Power BI Desktop application, renamed the .jpg file on my workstation, restarted Power BI Desktop and I could then proceed with inserting the image and saving the .pbix file.

 

Hopefully the development team will refine the error message to instruct to look at image file names and provide a means to successfully save your work as to avoid the fatal loss of all edits.