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Power BI Desktop no longer appears to lock PBIX files when they are open. I'm sure this used to be the case up to a few months ago.
Steps to reproduce:
1. Using Windows Explorer, navigate to your PBIX file
2. Double-click the file to open it in Power BI Desktop
3. Return to Windows Explorer
4. Double-click the same file to open it in Power BI Desktop .. again !?!
5. Chaos
Expected result (and the way it worked previously) is that at step 4 you would receive an error that the file was already open.
Some teams use Windows File Shares to share PBIX files amongst authors - they are severely impacted by this change as you can no longer be sure if someone else has a PBIX file open.
The file does appear to be partially locked - you can't rename it once one Power BI Desktop session has it open.
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