Power Query link to power pivot is lost

Hi
As I'm starting using PowerQuery to import big text files into Power query (thanks to this forum help!) I bumped into an issue: sometimes the link betweek a Query and the Datamodel tab is lost. Which means that the next time I refresh the query data, a new
tab will be created into the datamodel instead of using the previously generated tab.
As I've added calculated columns and measures into the first tab, this is obviously an issue. I haven't renamed the query in the process (which I found out would always create a new tab with the new name in the datamodel).
Can someone explain to me why this happens and if there is a way to connect back a specific query to a given datamodel tab?
Thanks!

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