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Power BI Pro cannot refresh 400MB .pbix file
Hi Experts,
I'm using Power BI Pro and one of my reports is a .pbix file size around 400MB but when it got refreshed on the service, I faced this error.
So, isn't 1GB file size limit for Power BI Pro license?
Thank you
KL
Hi kitti
What typically happens is if your PBIX file is 400 megabits in size, if you refresh the entire model plus the overhead of the refreshes, you will go over your 1 GB limit. This is because you are taking the 400MB of your current model size plus the 400MB of the refresh size plus the overhead which would take you over the one gigabyte threshold. I would recommend, if possible to do incremental refreshing. Which would then only refresh the latest data and be well below the 400MB size when refreshing the model. Configure incremental refresh for Power BI semantic models - Power BI | Microsoft Learn
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kitti ,
Please check your overall workspace storage reached 10GB storage. you can see it under Manage Group storage option.
We did not yet reach 10GB
Hi kitti
What typically happens is if your PBIX file is 400 megabits in size, if you refresh the entire model plus the overhead of the refreshes, you will go over your 1 GB limit. This is because you are taking the 400MB of your current model size plus the 400MB of the refresh size plus the overhead which would take you over the one gigabyte threshold. I would recommend, if possible to do incremental refreshing. Which would then only refresh the latest data and be well below the 400MB size when refreshing the model. Configure incremental refresh for Power BI semantic models - Power BI | Microsoft Learn
Hi kitti,
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