Power BI Desktop "Recent sources" are not preserving recent nor pinned data sources after closing it

[ECorona]

We are developing a connector for some of our costumers, we have received comments about that could be nice if there is a way to preserve the servers typed, so I was looking into the "Recent sources

I have found that the "Recent sources" menu in Power BI Desktop is not working (at least not as I expected), steps to replicate the issues:

• Open Power BI Desktop
• Click on "Get Data"
• Get data from any data source (In this example an Excel workbook) and load it into Power BI Desktop
• Click on “Recent sources” in the “Home” section of the ribbon.
• The “Most recent” displays the loaded Excel workbook as expected.
• Click on “More…”
• The “Recent Sources” modal dialog is displayed showing the Excel workbook.
• Click on the pin icon to pin that source.
• The recent source is now pinned and shown in the “Recent Sources” sub-menu under the “Pinned”.
• Save the .pbix file.
• Close Power BI Desktop
• Open Power BI Desktop
• Click on “Recent Sources” in the Welcome screen.
• PBI Desktop displays a the “Recent Sources” modal with the message “There are no recent sources to display.”
• Close it.
• Click on the “Recent sources” button in the “Home” section, there are not any recent or pinned.

Open the previous saved .pbix file, try to se the recent sources, there are not any recent or pinned source.

[kerryo]

As of 27 Jun 2025 this is still an issue. Version: 2.144.1155.0 64-bit (June 2025) Tested with a snowflake connector.