Hi there , I wonder if anyone has perhaps encountered this problem before - I have looked at many threats and tried many of the suggested fixes - I even went so far as to re do all the external source queries and appends - after doing that I still received this message - pls refer to attached pic.

I have a normal table that is in a separate file in a workbook - all I did was : Get Data/From File/. I selected the file in which the table was saved and navigated to the table - connected it, even added it to the data model and loaded it to the 'Combined Sheet" . but when I open the file in which the combined query is saved it gives me the message below - I did this both while the file was opened and whilst it was closed

any suggestions

M Excel - We could not get data.JPG