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Can't export to Power BI Desktop format
Hi, friends,
I usually download the desktop format pbix file. But now I don't know why I can not download it ?
We couldn't export to .pbix format. Thank you for your support.
- Activity IDab5eeb8b-e51d-4525-a40b-f1aaafebe41a
- Request ID6f5eaf85-1d5b-f734-c222-8b7fa90ef1ea
- Correlation ID41d2b7b8-9ee4-4181-5880-2e8abffdeb37
- Status code500
- TimeWed May 26 2021 20:51:11 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)
- Service version13.0.16080.73
- Client version2105.2.06171-train
- Cluster URIhttps://wabi-west-europe-b-primary-redirect.analysis.windows.net/
8 Replies
- Fowmy
Super User
Anonymous
If set up Incremental Refresh on the model, then downloading won't work. Otherwise check the admin restrictions.
You can also create a support ticket to get the issues resolved: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/support/ 
v-deddai1-msftCommunity Support
Hi Anonymous ,
There is some limitation for downloading the pbix file:
- The report must have been created using Power BI Desktop and since been published to the Power BI Service.
- You won’t be able to download the report if it was originally created in the Power BI Service.
- You cannot download Dataset with incremental refresh as a .pbix file.
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.
Best Regards,
Dedmon Dai
Posting for the sake of others with the same issue:
You also need to uncheck the Large dataset storage format in the datasource settings. This will allow you to download the PBIX file.
hey vladimir84 , I am also facing the same issue and I unchecked this, still I am unable to download, what could be the reason?
