Hi,
since yesterday when i refresh pbi desktop file. it never fininshed ..?
i am seeing this message for 20 mins now. normally it takes less 1 mins.
do you have any clue?
@Anonymous is your data source available? Maybe there is a lag to pull the data? What is your source?
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@Anonymous that's surely weird, can you check in query editor if you can preview the file.
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okie i've got a new error message. it said i have too many columns and checked my query it created a lot columns.. i don't know why this happend? cos my origianl excel file is exactly same..
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