Disk Space depletion after working in PowerBi desktop

[jpytlik]

Hi,

I am new to this forum and searched for someone else that might be having the same issue I am having so, I apologize in advance if I missed an existing post or this is the wrong forum.

Every time I work in PowerBi, my hard drive space becomes seriously depleted and I cannot, for the life of me, figure out where/what is being saved to disk beyond what is in the Traces folder. 

Windows 10, PowerBi Desktop 2.103.661.10

       - Detailed Windows Version and Power Bi Help About info is at the end of this post.

Yesterday, I was working on a few reports.    When I was done and cleaning up for the day, I noticed that my hard drive space went from 159Gb to 25Gb!   The only reason I checked this is because a few weeks ago, I had 224Gb and last week noticed it had gone down to 117Kb.  I started scrybbing my HD, clearing the c:\Windows\Temp folder, my user Temp folder,  and moving everything I could think of, to an external HDD but, honestly, the only thing that had changed is I started working on PowerBi Desktop.

I have 5 reports I go between. The largest is 1.86Gb, another is 1.4KB and the rest are no bigger than 100MB.

Yesterday I was playing with a few Power Queries on 1 report, and a few cosmetic fixes on another.

I refreshed both reports maybe once or twice during the day and published one (1.4Gb).

Also, there were a few odd times when I opened a report, it said there were Recovery files but I just answered to remove them.

When I googled this, the only thing I could find was to clean up the logs/traces.  This is what I have done so far and only got back to 42Gb (no bueno).

   - I opened PowerBi Settings and cleared all Cache's

        -  Most of my settings are Defaults but, we did increase the Data Cache Maximum allowed to 16384 

   - I cleared the Traces Folder on the Diagnostics settings page (and verfied in c:\users\<myname>\Microsoft\Power Bi Desktop Store App\Traces

   - I have emptied my Recycle bin so many times it's cleaner than my kitchen counter 🙂 

At this point, I am honestly afraid to open PowerBi and continue working as I fear I won't be able to work on any of my other tasks if my space goes any lower. 

Any help/insight would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Janet

[arvindsingh802 · Accepted solution]

Please clear C:\Users\<Username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Power BI Desktop\CEF

and C:\Users\<Username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Power BI Desktop\cache