Power BI – Losing Disk space when working with Power BI Desktop
I recently had an issue on a customer’s server, where I was developing Power BI Desktop reports. And the C: Drive was running out of disk space, which was attributed to my user profile.
Upon inspection I found that the TempSaves directory had a whole stack of temporary files saved in there. Even though I had previously selected to change the option in Power BI Desktop to delete files
I am pretty confident it has to do with the Auto recovery feature in Power BI Desktop.
If you are ever having any issues here is where you can go and delete the unwanted files that are no longer relevant.
Click on Start, then Run and put the following into the Run Command below.
%UserProfile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Power BI Desktop\TempSaves
This should then open the location of the Temp Saves for Power BI Desktop Files.
I then selected all the files that I knew I no longer needed.
And then deleted them.
NOTE: I did keep the most recent file, which had todays date, which I did currently have open.
I then could get back roughly 10GB of disk space.
Now, somebody needs to figure out a Flow that will autodelete files in this directory that are greater than 7 days old (for example)
Yeah that would be great.
I am not sure if Microsoft Flow is able to delete files on a users PC though?
Saved the day. Thanks a lot for the information 🙂
Thanks for letting me know, always nice to hear that it helped someone
I’d like to know if there is any way to modify the “%UserProfile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Power BI Desktop\TempSaves” to another drive?
Hi Corey,
That this moment in time there is no way to modify this!
Thank you for posting this! Couldn’t figure out why I was using 13 GB of space.