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BothaW
Regular Visitor

CSV export issue?

Good day everyone,

 

One of our clients is exporting data to CSV file format and is getting the "data is too large" error (only exporting 300 rows).  The weird part is that this was working until yesterday.  Are anyone aware of any recent changes or bugs on this?

 

When testing this, and exporting to xlsx format, there is no error and there are less than 2000 rows of data.  Also the table/data exported does not have any "links" to other tables.

 

This is the message:

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After selecting the following options:

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Thank you

 

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Anonymous
Not applicable

Hi @BothaW ,

The problem has been reported to the internal team, any prgogress I will update you shortly. 

Best Regards

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martaTr
Frequent Visitor

hi, i am facing same issues since two days already. i have 6k lines in my table in power bi, once i exported it to XLSX or CSV i see as a result only 700 lines. Do you know what is a reason behind it?

Rubio
New Member

Its OK for me now. Can export data to csv files until 30K in PBI Desktop.
Seems the issue navigate through a wave of software updates. So be patient and keep connected to the net to get lastest updates.

Jame5_Blonde2
Helper I
Helper I

This problem is not resolved!

My Client is using desktop to export csv from table. Only 700 rows but  "data is too large" when exporting.

Clearly its exporting underlying data "by mistake"

They have uninstalled/reinstalled the latest version of desktop.

 

- please advice

 

 

Rubio
New Member

Hi, Same issue for me since two weeks on Desktop. Is there any new release to download ? Thx !

sgallo
Advocate V
Advocate V

Hi @Anonymous, I am still experiencing this issue on the desktop but not on the browser.

Any suggestion?

Suratchanee
New Member

I have the same issue today. I was able to export last week. 

I have same problem with fresh new wersion 2.121.762.0 64-bit.
I did not observe this problem in the previous version.

Anonymous
Not applicable

Hi @BothaW ,

The problem has been reported to the internal team, any prgogress I will update you shortly. 

Best Regards

I still face the issue. Can you please revisit again ?

Anonymous
Not applicable

Hi all,

Thanks for all of your feedback, other people also face the same situation with you. Now the related team are working on it, any progress I will update you soon. Any comment or problem, please feel free to let me know.

Best Regards

Hello @Anonymous, thanks for your support. 

While I the propose workaround indicated as a "solution" on this thread did not work for me, I'm happy to share that I have some month end extractions to execute on some of power bi report I have (and I relly on CSV extrations for some of that) and, as I tested today, the CSV data extract from PBI files on Power BI Desktop worked as expected today.

Again, thanks for your support.

Anonymous
Not applicable

Hi @nlpandrade ,

Thanks for your feedback. It's glad to hear that the csv export feature works well in your side. 

Best Regards

are there any updates here? 

I see this post reports this issue a few days ago... 

Had no issues with this end of August but now it's affecting some data exchanges in our solutions.

Thank you.

Anonymous
Not applicable

Hi @nlpandrade & @BothaW  & @AurelieBertrand ,

The problem has been resolved, could you please check if it is OK in your side? Thank you.

Best Regards

I'm still facing the same issue at my end: the exported CSV is limited to 300 lines. I ended up writing a flow on power automate to extract the data I need from a table on the PBI file. That's not the ideal solution because it requires additional workaround instead of just using the standard exporte to CSV data file of Power BI. 

Pelase keep us posted on the progress to address this issue.

Thank you.

Anonymous
Not applicable

Hi @Bob-the-Builder  & @sgallo  & @nlpandrade ,

Thanks for your feedback. It is an known issue, now the related team are working on it. Any progress will update you shortly.

Known issue - Export to CSV file truncated at 300 rows - Power BI | Microsoft Learn

As a workaround, try choosing the Excel export file format. You can then open the downloaded Excel file and save it as a CSV file.

Best Regards

good morning,

the feature to export in Excel format is not available in power bi destop in my organization. 

The export format CSV is pre configured and I can't change it.

Good morning,

I still see the issue at my end: I tested more than one applications (I used to generate CSV data files) and they all are exporting only 300 lines. 

Thanks for your help @Anonymous 

Nelson

Good Day, great thank you.  Customer confirmed that it's working again.

Ho @Anonymous 

The problem is resolved, thanks for your help.

Regards

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