Hi people,
I had my Power BI project open in Power BI Desktop when a windows update did an uncommanded restart without warning. I was in the process of uploading my project to the service.
When the machine restarted and I tried to open the file I get an error box with the title:
Unable to open document
and the message:
The file O:\Management\ProjectAnalysis.pbix is already open in Power BI Desktop or another program
How does PBI lock files? I looked in the source folder and there is no temp file there. I have rebooted the machine again but I am still unable to open the file. Even with the machine switched off and trying to open the file from another machine yeilds the same response on that machine. I copied the file and can open the copy fine to the structure is intact. The obvious solution is to then delete the original and rename the the copy to the original however Windows will not allow me to delete it saying it is in use by another user.
Does anyone have any ideas as to how I can either find out what process is using it or delete it?
The file is stored on a network drive
Power BI Version: 2.40.4554.463 64-bit (October 2016)
Cheers,
Karl