removed table from pbix but file size does not get smaller

[Anonymous]

I have a pbix project with 12 tables and 9 pages and 100+ measures, file size around 26MB.
I copied this base pbix and deleted all tables but one, deleted all pages and deleted all measures, but now the file size is 31MB.

I suspect that old database is still loaded into the pbix file for some reason, but I need to get rid of it.
How can I refresh/compact the data in the pbix file?

[Anonymous]

@Anonymous,

You can export your file as a Power BI template file, which will not contain any data.

[Anonymous]

I exported to pbit an then reimported the data, and the file size is the same 31MB.

so I think that the extra tables were too small or were better compacted...

[v-juanli-msft]

Hi @Anonymous

Do you use direct query or any other connection mode?

What's purpose do you want to achieve?

Best regards

maggie

[Anonymous]

I didn´t used direct query. I imported the tables.

with 10 tables, total filesize 26MB.
I removed all but 2 tables, total filesize 31MB.
I want to achieve smaller fielsize when I remove data from the pbix file.