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Anonymous
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Faster Refresh

Hi guys

I would like to hear your opinion on this.

My power BI file is very big, i mean, with a lot of tables/queries, merges and appends.
I've organize them in folders like, Sales Folder, Costs Folder and Others.
Somenoe told me once that this way the refresh data would take longer if they were together.
True?

Thanks in advance

Best regards

Pedro

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az38
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Hi @Anonymous 

honestly, I do not see any difference in refresh speed with or without folders


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peterhui50
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hey I am not a superuser, but I have had this same problem for a file. I got rid of all conditional columns in PQ and it improve significantly. >8 hours vs < 2 hours to refresh.

az38
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Hi @Anonymous 

honestly, I do not see any difference in refresh speed with or without folders


do not hesitate to give a kudo to useful posts and mark solutions as solution
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Anonymous
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@az38 
Thank you so much. It's nice to hear an opinion from a super user!!!
Awesome!

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