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VAMI

Power BI Desktop freezes when saving

Submitted by Advocate I on ‎03-12-2025 07:46 AM

Hello,

Starting today, Power BI Desktop freezes every time I try to save. 

This happend to me and at least one other colleague.

The freezing does not prevent the saving itself so far, but I need to restart Power BI Desktop after each time I save my Report.

 

Has anyone had a similar issue so far or any suggestion to resolve it?

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asocorro
Skilled Sharer
Skilled Sharer
‎03-18-2025 08:20 AM
Same issue here, on two different laptops.
VAMI
Advocate I
Advocate I
‎03-18-2025 08:31 AM
Hi all, Thank you so much for sharing all your similar experiences. Rolling back to January seems to be the best workaround to keep work going. Any progress by Microsoft on this topic so far you can report of @Anonymous ?
zhoura345
Frequent Visitor
‎03-18-2025 04:49 PM
Same exact problems. Besides rolling back to Jan 2025 version (which I haven't tried yet), I found a possible solution that every time I make changes in the Query Editor, I choose "Close & Apply" instead of "Apply." Also, when I want to click Save, I close the Query Editor before clicking. A bit cumbersome for sure, opening and closing the Query Editor, but better than losing work and having to restart the whole application over and over.
seppe
Regular Visitor
‎03-20-2025 03:04 AM
same problem here Version: 2.140.1577.0 64-bit (February 2025)
MahmoudZou
Regular Visitor
‎03-20-2025 06:01 AM
Thanks @zhoura345 for the workarounds! Worked for me.
alex4710
Regular Visitor
‎03-21-2025 01:08 AM

Same Problem

Version: 2.140.1577.0 64-bit (Februar 2025)

danrope
Advocate I
Advocate I
‎03-24-2025 08:49 AM

Power BI desktop is freezing every time I try to save file

 

Version: 2.140.1577.0 64-bit (February 2025)

 

Is there any resolution to this? Or even communication since two weeks ago? This issue leaves our enterprise literally unable to use the service we're paying for

zhoura345
Frequent Visitor
‎03-24-2025 08:51 AM
@danrope Please see the temp workaround our company has been using before a new version is released. Either revert back to Jan 2025 or use the workaround I posted above.
danrope
Advocate I
Advocate I
‎03-24-2025 10:40 AM
@zhoura345 I'm not using Query Editor - so this seemingly doesn't apply to me. Every time I save it freezes at "Working On It" and I don't know how to roll back to previous version (January 2025)
afkm
Regular Visitor
‎03-24-2025 10:42 AM

@danrope, it's far from ideal to have to do a workaround but this definitely works:

  1. Close Query Editor (without applying changes)
  2. Save PBIX (without applying changes)
  3. Apply changes
  4. Save PBIX

 

@Anonymous(Community Support) can you please give an update when this issue with the Power Query Editor is fixed please?

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