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Power Query Opens Source Workbook on Refresh
- I believe it was short lived bug.
Hey,
I'm experiencing the same issue. Did you ever find a solution?
Thanks
No, but that was somehow tied to that specific workbook. After creating a new one and put the plain data from the old one into it, it worked fine. So, thats some setting in the workbook i guess.
And, not sure if this matters or not: that "problematic" workbook came from the asian side of the world whereas i am located in Europe.
I've done some more thorough testing, and have narrowed it down to XLSB files. If the source for the Powerquery is an XLSB, and if another user is in that file, it decides to spring open a copy of that file (as read only).
If another user doesn't have the file open, it typically refreshes ok.
If you change the file to an XLSM (Or probably XLSX), the issue does not occur whether another user has the file open or not.
As it happens I believe PQ pulls in the latest SAVED version of the file, not the Live copy, and so I'm confused why read/write even makes a blind bit of difference.
We bounced round ideas that perhaps because the XSLB does not use the openXML standard that this may be why it causes issues.
I have noticed the same behaviour today when the source files are .xls files. I previously never seen this happen with the same .xls files prior, it just started doing it today. I did notice a team member had some files opened. After they closed the .xls source files the issue was resolved.
I tried one whole day on the issue and tried several things suggested on the internet. This is the only solution that really worked, I am amazed again at how simple, silly things matter again...
Yeah i pondered this, but it forms part of a complicated web of files which a lot of the business uses to 'run the business'. I'm also planning to move it to PowerBI soon™, so reluctant to change if i can avoid.
Thanks, i'll see if the user can deal with it for the mean time.
