Connect to Excel Workbook - "Workbook already exists - This workbook already exists on Power BI"

[fbcideas_migusr]

When I try to connect to Excel Workbook on Onedrive for Business ( Power BI Service > Get Data > OneDrive for Business > Excel Workbook > "Connect" ), I get the following message, but it is not possible to find the report in the reports to the group: "Workbook already exists - This workbook already exists on Power BI" Connecting and removing the report has not been an issue earlier.

[fbcideas_migusr]

Hi, thank you for looking into to it! I'm not able to reproduce it with other excel worksbooks either. Is there a way to clear the cache in the Power BI Service?

[chass]

Hello Kristoffer, As i can not reproduce this can you create a support ticket at http://support.powerbi.com? Thanks Chuck

[lestersd]

This happened to me more than once when moving an existing Excel file from the original location. When I tried to reconnect the Excel with PowerBI, I got this error message "This workbook already exists on Power BI". The Excel file is not visible in the Reports section, so I cannot remove any old reference to the file. It seems to be an orphan reference issue. Any idea?