report file corrupt or invalid

Good Morning All,

I spent an hour this morning trying to figure how to resolve this issue. Option A (below) did not work for me because I accidently deleted the recovery file.

Option A: (most common resolution)

1. Open Power BI Desktop instead of double-clicking the the corrupted pbix file's location
2. Click File -> Open -> Select the corrupted pbix file
3. You will see a yellow ribbon saying “open in autorecovery mode..” Click on it and the file will open with the version before it got corrupted.

Option B:

1. Open another pbix file on your computer.
   • a) If file does not open properly, uninstall PowerBI Desktop and reinstall
   • b) If file does open, proceed to Option C

Option C:

1. Open file explorer
2. Locate the corrupted pbix file's location
3. Right click the file -> click "Restore previous version"
4. Select your version (typically, most recent), and open. 
5. Do what you need and overwrite the file in its original location.

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