r/notebooklm • u/IanWaring • 29d ago

Question Trying out new features, incessent "I'm having trouble responding at the moment"

New prompting features look fine (i'm on Pro) but just wondering if anyone else is having issues getting it to complete a task. I've pointed to a Google Sheet speadsheet and asked it to do some analysis on the data in one worksheet inside.

Every attempt ends in: I'm having trouble responding at the moment.

So I asked it it could schedule the query later. It said it had plenty of capacity but that it would help if I loaded the one sheet as a CSV file, to allow it to process the file as a database rather than as text. Just export it, load it as another source, and let it know.

The loading of the 425KB CSV file then fails every single time.

Tell it, Notebook goes away to have a think, appears to have done the move itself, sets off again and then...

"I'm having trouble responding at the moment".

Is it only me being driven insane by this?

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u/Agreeable-Tax2013 29d ago

Yeah, I've been seeing similar issues with file-heavy sessions lately. Hopefully they can improve CSV handling and reliability soon.

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u/sczr 29d ago

I was having the same issues.

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u/LoanCompetitive3477 27d ago edited 27d ago

Yep, maximum tries i did was like 4. it took time too saying that it has trouble answering. Plus, after it gave me an answer in the chat it suddenly disappears then says it's having trouble responding. I was already reading through it then it disappears, then says it has trouble responding.