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Restoring a Semantic Model after seeing a Region error
We have a user who got the following error on a report/semantic model pair he had published in his own "My Workspace":
"We can't open this report right now because the underlying dataset won't open in this region"
{"error":{"code":"LargeModelMovedAcrossRegions","pbi.error":{"code":"LargeModelMovedAcrossRegions","parameters":{"regionName":"North Central US"},"details":[],"exceptionCulprit":1}}}
As an organization we have not moved regions and nothing (AFAICT) has changed with this user's permissions / licenses etc.
When I looked at the semantic model, it was effectively empty - no tables or measures were visible. When trying to view parameters I got a "Something went wrong - Failed to retrieve the parameters" error.
This user is a bit unique - he is relatively new, and signed up for a Fabric Trial on his first day - but he has also has a PowerBI Pro license enabled, assigned by our organization. I think these dual licenses are part of the issue, but can't determine why / how.
He also built the report/model in the Power BI service, not in Power BI Desktop, so he can't just republish. (Just using the Power BI Service is not typical practice in our organization - but he's new and wanted to dive right in.)
From research and from throwing error messages into Co-Pilot, it looks like the original semantic model is lost, and cannot be recovered, and the user will have to rebuild. But if anyone has any suggestions of something to try, or has run into similar issues in the past, please let me know.
Thanks in advance!
Hi smcdougal
The error that you are receiving is most certainly true in terms of the capacity is now in A different region. What you have to remember is that your fabric capacity administrator can move certain workspaces including My workspace to a new region which would potentially 'cause this error. What I can say is that you can potentially still extract the semantic model into a PBIP format using a Visual Studio Code extension and the blog post as shown below.
https://www.fourmoo.com/2025/08/13/download-any-power-bi-report-from-the-power-bi-service/
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Hi smcdougal
The error that you are receiving is most certainly true in terms of the capacity is now in A different region. What you have to remember is that your fabric capacity administrator can move certain workspaces including My workspace to a new region which would potentially 'cause this error. What I can say is that you can potentially still extract the semantic model into a PBIP format using a Visual Studio Code extension and the blog post as shown below.
https://www.fourmoo.com/2025/08/13/download-any-power-bi-report-from-the-power-bi-service/
Thank you Gilbert - that was very helpful!
That is a very useful tool for extracting reports and models.
However in this case, I cannot see this user's workspace - I think it has to do with his having signed up for a Fabric trial on his own rather than relying on our enterprise licenses. And in any case the point is moot, as he decided to cut his losses and recreate his report, but this time in an appropriate shared workspace.
Thanks again for your input!
