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Have constructed a flow and ran it but was faced with the warning, "Flow run timed out. Please try again.". Tried running it again numerous times but the warning still appeared.

I suspect this is due to the large data present in my flow (as i tried running the same flow with a smaller data volume and was not faced with such an issue).

Please comment if you have a way around this or a solution to this problem (I cant delete my data set tho!)

Thank you!

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yashag2255 24,769 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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Hi @vicktan

Can you share a screenshot of the flow? Note that, if you are testing the flow and monitoring the steps by clicking the save and test, the flow run times out after 10 minutes and then if you navigate to the run history you will see the flow run continuing. Also, if it is on a specific action, you can change the action settings by clicking ... and then in settings, configure a static time out.

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vicktan 6 on at

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Hi @yashag2255

Thank you for your reply!

Indeed my flow is still running when I look at the flow history. Could I check how do I configure the static time out? I cannot seem to find the "..." as mentioned.

Thank you!

PS: I cant upload my workflow due to the settings made by my organisation. However, my flow looks something like this:
-Recurrance
-Initial variable
-List rows present in table in Excel-Table A
-Apply to each-Table A
-List rows present in table in Excel- Table B
-Apply to each-Table B
-Condition 1
-Condition 2

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yashag2255 24,769 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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Hi @vicktan

when working with large data sets, flow can take time to process the rows. If you want to add static time out, you can do so in action settings on which the time out needs to be added. Example:

Here, this action waits for 1 day before timeout. P1D is the string input that needs to be passed for 1 day time stamp.

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I ran into this issues as well and resolved it by adjusting the Workbook calculation properties.

The data I was transferring was not large but the spread sheet has a significant number of formulas.

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How can I do this settings for apply each ?

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Hi @zbegumdost

That cannot be done on the Apply to Each control. You can identify the action within the loop that is consuming more time and then modify the settings on that particular action.

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hello guys, i am new to power automate and i am having the same issue "Flow run timed out. Please try again." i think my problem is linked to the amount of data (557 lines in excel containing IDs and emails and names), and there is an apply to each and then the program looks into a folder containing IDs and sends email when it find. i am looking for support on how to optimize the flow. Thanks

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Same time-out issue I'm facing on very small data under apply to each. Under apply to each I changed timeout P1D for creating a item and adding attachment actions

Issue not resolved using above. please share valid solutions.

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did you tried splitting data into smaller ones?

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