Size Limit on Documents

Anthony Boyd

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Mar 7, 2003, 9:04:31 AM3/7/03

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Does anyone know if there is a size limit on documents on the document
folders in SPS? When I try to copy over a file that is 82mb I receive the
error, "You do not have permission to copy this file or folder, or there are
network problems preventing authentication from the server" I am logged
into the server that is hosting SPS. I had no trouble coping over other
files except when it comes to this one, I already have files as large as
62mb already in SPS.

James Edelen [MVP]

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Mar 7, 2003, 9:07:29 AM3/7/03

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The official Limit is 50MB, but I have seen this error occur on documents as
small as 30MB and I have copied a couple of 60MB documents without getting
the error. It isn't an exact limit, but all documentation says that 50MB is
the limit.

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Anthony Boyd

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Mar 7, 2003, 9:35:10 AM3/7/03

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Is there also the same limit if you have SPS crawl a network share when the
index data passes through SPS. Right now I have my index set up building an
index of the SPS documents and also of the same files on a network share,
will the files over 50mb on the network share that is being index have an
affect on the indexing?

Thanks

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James Edelen [MVP]

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Mar 7, 2003, 10:26:15 AM3/7/03

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The index has no limit on file size, but the search service will only crawl
the first 16MB of text it finds in the document.

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Anthony Boyd

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Mar 7, 2003, 11:46:58 AM3/7/03

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When you say "the first 16mb of text", how is that determined in
comparission to the file size? Here is my senerio, we are putting adobe
captured pdf's into the portal using the iFilter add-in. How could I tell
if I excedded the 16mb text. Adobe is capturing the documents at full text.

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James Edelen [MVP]

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Mar 7, 2003, 11:58:31 AM3/7/03

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It depends on how the ifilter works. My best guess is that it takes the PDF
file and extracts the text from it (probably in ASCII). The indexing
engine will then process the first 16MB of the text that is passed to it and
create an index on that. It will stop when it hits the 16MB limit. In the
gatherer logs you should get some sort of error or warning when the 16MB
limit is reached.

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