Tag: large csv
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The Big CSV: What Opens It, What Splits It, and What Only Looks Like It Works
A CSV of a few gigabytes is not a corrupted file, and the machine is not too slow. Three different limits are being hit at once, and they are easy to confuse: What you tried What actually stopped you double-click it, Excel opens 1,048,576 rows and 16,384 columns per sheet; past that Excel truncates without…