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Power Query when add a new excel files to a folder and get Error
- 3 years ago
hi mahenkj2
after read the post on the link shared, that I thank you.
I've noticed that the problem can be solved just by open and close the EXCEL file, without any change or editing. So, following an example on one of the reply related to the shared post, I've adapt a powershell script, that I run each time that any new files is placed into any subfolder. After I can refresh all in the PowerBI without having the error
$fileList = Get-ChildItem -path "C:\anydirectory" -Recurse| %{$_.FullName}
$excelComObject = New-Object -COM "Excel.Application"
$excelComObject.DisplayAlerts = $falseforeach ($file in $fileList) {
$file
$wb = $excelComObject.Workbooks.Open($file, $true, $false)
$wb.Save()
$wb.Close()
}$excelComObject.Quit()
[System.Runtime.Interopservices.Marshal]::ReleaseComObject($excelComObject)
Remove-Variable excelComObjectThanks
Pol2all- Try follow these steps, seems some issue with the newly added Excel file in the folder during the refresh process
1. Verify file format and structure: Confirm that the newly added Excel file has the same format and structure as the existing files like file extension is ".xlsx" or a compatible Excel format that Power BI supports.
2. Refresh specific files: Instead of refreshing all the files in the folder at once, try refreshing the newly added Excel file individually.
3. Convert Excel files to CSV: If the issue persists with Excel files, consider converting the files to CSV format and using the CSV files as a data source in Power BI.
If this post helps to find solution would be happy if you could mark my post as a solution and give it a thumbs up
Best regards
Manoj Nair
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