I am currently coming across an issue of not being able to save a .pbip file because at least one file path exceeds the 256-character limit. I understand that I can try to rename some things to bring...
TinyMountain
2 months agoRegular Visitor
I have long paths enabled in my registry and still get this issue. It seems like this is a problem with Power BI and / or its dependencies. However, our team was able to buy ourselves some length by creating a virtual drive on our machines that points to the folder where we keep our projects. The command for this is subst DriveLetter: "path\to\project\folder"; eg, subst P: "C:\Users\username\Power BI Projects". In our case, this trimmed off about 60 characters from the file paths, and we were able to open them again by navigating to them through the virtual P drive.