Combining multiple files

While working with your data, you may need to automatically combine multiple files. You could use the append transformation method, but if you imagine a use case where there are files loaded into a folder with a defined frequency and you need to see the new data coming at each refresh, it is clear that an alternative method is needed. In this recipe, you will see how to connect and combine multiple files with just a few clicks, regardless of how many there are in the folder.

Getting ready

For this recipe, to test different types of file connectors, you need to download a CSVFiles folder containing CSV files, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 5.28 – Local folder with CSV files

In this example, I will refer to the following path: C:\Data\CSVFiles.

How to do it…

Open the Power BI Desktop application to perform the following steps:

1. Go to Get Data, then click on the Folder connector. You can...