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Anonymous
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6 years ago

Unexpected error; Evaluation was canceled

Hello,   For 3 months I have been plagued by the error "Unexpected error: Evaluation was canceled".  This costs me between 2-4 hours in an 8 hour workday going through each query selecting the quer...
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Anonymous
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6 years ago

Hi Anonymous,

Sorry I can't reproduce your problem. According to the information I searched, this problem may be caused by disabling the option "Allow data preview to download data in the background". Could you please check this option setting in your side? (In Power BI Desktop, select File > Options and settings > Options, and then select the Data Load page)

In addition, hope the following documentations will help you.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/guidance/power-query-background-refresh

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Unexpected-error-Evaluation-was-canceled/td-p/456055

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/f55b83a9-a966-46a4-80fc-2cca08fa3a12/unexpected-error-evaluation-was-canceled?forum=powerquery

 

Best Regards

Rena

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Anonymous
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6 years ago

Thanks Anonymous !  However when I first started having the issues I deselected that option.  It seems that I have the issue regardless of the background refresh.

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    Anonymous
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    6 years ago

    Hi Anonymous ,

    Sorry I haven't found a suitable solution so far. There is one workaround : select the failed queries about Query Editor and hit the Retry button after researched. Maybe you can create a support ticket ask for help.

    Best Regards

    Rena