Complete books: A high-resolution book of 800-1200 pages (as is used in academic contexts) is easily 100mb+ even when compressed fully to Adobe 10 standards
Videos: Increasingly, digital video is commonplace for conferences and presentations. Publicly accessible links are ephemeral; it would therefore be advantageous to upload the actual video into the reference manager
If it’s not possible, a humble suggestion since Google Drive storage is relatively inexpensive these days, it’s likely that others will increasingly be looking to store a copy of the underlying reference to ensure that a record of it isn’t lost. So it may be a feature worth adding.
Hi - I was told that we can split the documents into smaller files to overcome the limit. I compressed the hell out of a PDF to get it to fit but of course quality is terrible.
@ajn Thank you for your suggestion. There are currently no plans to increase the limit but the team may reconsider that in the future. Some workarounds include compressing the file as @Adrienne_Boudreau suggested, splitting a PDF using an external tool (for example, splitting a book into chapters), or saving the file in Google Drive (making sure not to put it into the Paperpile folder) and putting the Drive URL into the note field of the reference.
Hi,
It would be very helpful if the file size limit could be extended beyond 1 or 2 GB. I am trying to migrate my EndNote database to Paperpile, but the current limit is causing some difficulties. My scanned books from the 1700s and 1800s cannot be attached to Paperpile due to their large size, and splitting them into chapters is not convenient for accessing the entire content.
Welcome to the forum, @Jae-Ho_Jung, and thank you for adding your +1 to this request on this thread! Just to confirm, were you able to upload the other PDFs in your database apart from these larger files? We currently have a 100MB limit due to past issues with handling larger files, though this may be revisited in the future. I’ve noted your feedback in our internal feature tracker for future consideration.
In the meantime, a workaround is to use third-party software to compress or split the files into smaller parts, then attach them using the paperclip icon beneath the reference. You can attach as many files as needed this way.
