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disgruntledphd2

Maximum file sizes are a curse.

It's very odd though, as the numbers aren't high enough to hit any common thresholds, right?

Anyone have any thoughts on what could have gone wrong here?

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It was the maximum number of columns in Excel ....

That somehow makes it even worse

Columns or rows?

Columns, they were using a column per case instead of a row per case.

Is that definitive?

Nope! Actually going off better info now it looks like they WERE using rows, but it was in the old .xls format instead of .xlsx which limits to 2^16 rows

https://twitter.com/standupmaths/status/1313149987707072512?...

Columns.

Row limit is over 1 million.

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