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"System.OutOfMemoryException"/Desktop keeps crashing
Every time I open a previously created report in desktop, which was running fine during the same session as it was created (using ~160MB of memory), Power BI desktop's memory usage increases rapidly ...
Anonymous Try fully uninstalling Power BI and reinstalling. Or try uploading the file to service and then redownloading it to desktop
I don't know if its the same issue as I found, but we got the same result when trying to read from an Excel file containign a table. Turns out the source system had created the table with all the empty columns in the Excel sheet as columns; over 16,000 of them! Once the spurious columns were deleted from the table it worked fine.