Open old report, PowerBi hangs

[bhalicki]

Hi Microsoft,

I tried to open an older report.  A dialog is displayed with the following information:

"Unable to connect".  We encountered an error while trying to connect.  Details: "Looks like we're unable to access the semantic model. Please contact the owner of the semantic model.".

I click "Edit".  Dialog disappears, but only way to quit PowerBi is to ctrl+alt+delete and kill the process.

If I instead click "Cancel", PowerBi Desktop starts.  If I then choose File -> Open, browse to the report, I get the same dialog, but this time when I click "Edit", the dialog allowing me to choose a dataset is displayed.

I suspect the issue relates to dialogs being displayed behind other windows (which I have reported many many times).

September 2025 edition.

[awright19]

Thank you for the workaround! I thought I'd just lost a bunch of reports!