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Eric
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7 years ago

File{"path":"\\\\server\\shared-resource\\folder\\file"} - Duplicate "\"

  Power BI Service is duplicating the "\" in the UNC path for all of the data sources in one of my Power BI report.    It refreshes fine in PBI Desktop but when I publish to Service I can't connec...
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Anonymous
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6 years ago

It's called an Escape Sequence and the "\\\\" actually is \\ under the covers. Look elsewhere for your refresh issue.

 

Also, if you are trying to combine all of the data from the 31 files and they are nearly identical in data columns, you can use a Folder Connector in Desktop and read them all in at once. Then you only need one folder Data Source on the Gateway to the folder.

Hopefully that's what you did and you didn't create 31 Data Sources on the Gateway, one for each file.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/desktop-combine-binaries

 

Jon