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PowerBI Desktop Crashes
Akahn My guess is that they'll have you go into options and enable tracing, have you crash the desktop and send them the trace file to see why it is doing it. Or you could just do that.
I'm also having this issue... It seems that the Desktop Client is VERY unreliable.. I am currently unable to work with my datasets because it frequently crashes, so I'm stuck and its really frustrating because I cant complete my projects right now. I'm trying to reach out to the Power BI Team to see what might be causing this issue..
odanovich The Microsoft team is very aggressively building out Powerbi. I think it's smart of them and to work with it there are some precautions I find helpful.
- First, know that we can roll back any new update by uninstalling (yes to go backwards, you do need to uninstall) the newest upgrade and reinstalling the prior version, or whatever one you prefer. As long as you've not implemented any of the new features, you're good to go. I save every release install file for that reason--they're not available anywhere.
- Second, I generally check the board to see if folks are having issues with a current release...perhaps they're very eager for the new features and update right off. Depending on that answer, I decide when and how careful to be on an update.
- Depending on your model--how big and how many measures...and your computer, perhaps some issues might be memory. You can tell I'm always looking for reasons to buy a bigger machine. Ignore this if you want. I found a big machine helps.
So, long and short, we're not victims where issues are show stoppers, we're the benefactors of the crazy build schedule these guys are keeping--we just need to be aware of what's up and go from there.
Tom
