I was building a report in Power bi. I did not save the file yet, so by default it was named "Untitled".
Server shut down unexpectedly. After reboot I opened Power BI but. In "View recovered files" I am unable to find the one I was working on.
I'm trying to find the location where Power BI stores .ipbx files but cannot find it.
Does anybody knows is there a chance to recover my Untitled file?
Thanks
Power BI stores temporary saved versions of the PBIX reports you build in the folder:
%localappdata%\Microsoft\Power BI Desktop\TempSaves\
e.g.
C:\Users\augustoproiete\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Power BI Desktop\TempSaves\
You should find files that look like this:
~$Untitled (Recovered 06d01d5075934de452284d38bd96ddf6bad.pbix
It was hidden for me too. I did a search on my computer for all .pbix files and the search discovered it. I then opened file location and found it. But I could not navigate directly to the location of the backups using Windows 10.
C:\Users\<username>\Microsoft\Power BI Desktop Store App\TempSaves
This is the location of the .pbix auto saved files.
C:\Users\<username>\Microsoft\Power BI Desktop Store App\AutoRecovery
This is the location of any Auto Recovered .pbix files if Power Bi crashes.
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i found a way to download all .pbix files in one workspace via powershell. is there also way to publish multiple power bi files in to one workspace (all files will be stored in one folder)?
Thanks for any Help!
i found some ideas to do this via Power BI REST API - but didn't really understand it...
You want the New-PowerBIReport cmdlet, which "Loads a Power BI report from a pbix file and deploys it to the Power BI service."
I'm new to power bi. I have developed a dashboard on power bi desktop. It reads some .csv files as data source. Now I need to move it to another machine, names of those csv files are the same, path is the only thing to be updated.
Is it possible to change the path only, instead of rebuilding this dashboard? Thanks.
In Power BI Desktop:
Go to File - Options - Data Source settings
Select your csv-file
Click the Change Source ... button and change the file path
Can you refresh data in a Power BI dashboard if you've moved the underlying data source to a different folder? My colleague built a dashboard using data on his desktop. I have to refresh the dashboard, but the updated data now sits on my desktop. Is there any way to do this?
The best solution is to always import source file from SharePoint using the SharePoint folder connector.
As a quickfix you could also change the path to a local source file by going to the table/query in the PowerQuery Editor. The first ETL step is "Source" and in the formula bar you can see something like
Source = Csv.Document(
File.Contents("C:\Users\login\Downloads\data.csv")
)
This is the place where you can simply change the path to the new location.
I have created a gateway with SQL connections. I wanted to connect an excel file that is stored on the company's shared folder but I keep getting an error:
I tried changing the file location to: "\\gvnas\GVNAS\N:\01. CORPORATE....\Compiled Dwell Time-Mail.xlsx" but it threw the same error.
I also have a power BI file with the same path and it works fine:
Have you check to ensure all system, Power BI and SQL sever have access to the folder your trying to read from?
Is there a difference between looking at the Power BI Desktop File (.PBIX extension) and looking at the report created when you go to Power BI Report Server and click on "Edit in Power BI Desktop"?
Will everything be exactly the same or would it be better to just look at the .PBIX file if I want to see exactly how the report was created?
I am unable to test this myself at this time.
When you open the file that has been uploaded in the Power BI (PBI) Service, you can be certain that this your live file that is currently being used in production.
When you open a .PBIX file on computer using the PBI Desktop, it might be the same file as the file downloaded from PBI Service, but there's no guarantee that no changes have been made to the file.
So if you want to know the current live file looks like, always download the .PBIX file from PBI Service.