First of all, this is not a bug nor programming error on your NAV system. This is a software limitation which your user manual must have included already. Basically and in summary this happens under following reasons.

  1. This message can be resulted through running a report or sort of any data report in MS Dynamics applications. Please refer into the below information in order to get an idea about and solutions for the error report.
  2. This error occurs as a result when you are trying to create a temporary file (which automatically generated in the background while generating necessary data for your report) which exceeds a volume of 2 GB of system memory where Dynamics NAV application unable to handle by default, imposing a software limitation considering the redundancy.
  3. You can set filters in order to overcome this problem. Through setting filters which will limit the data ranges like item numbers, dates or any other criteria you can avoid this error.
  4. If you have no idea about this temporary data files, for an example they are usually stored under following path;
    %TEMP%\Microsoft Dynamics NAV\LocalSettings.tmp