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SBC
Helper III
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Error returned: There's not enough memory to complete this operation in power bi

Hi,

One of my report is failed to on-demand refresh in power bi desktop ,and I received the following message error.

"Failure Details: There's not enough memory to complete this operation.  Please try again later when there may more memory available.”

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Iam using Power BI Pro version and  i have  changed few settings in powerbi desktop, and increased cache data size  still facing  error in power bi .

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Does anyone know the root cause of this issue? 

 

 

 

Thanks,

SBC

 

 

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v-xiaosun-msft
Community Support
Community Support

Hi @SBC ,

 

Could you please tell me what’s your connection mode?

You may increase the size of “Maximum allowed” as below in Power BI Desktop and try again.

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And you can clear auto recovery files which may occupy a large amount of memory.

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Best Regards,
Community Support Team _ xiaosun

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