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Greetings Redminers,

I was in the process of transferring our PDF employee manual into a page of our Redmine wiki when I hit this issue:

Although you can type as much text into the textarea input for a wiki page as you please, it will only save ~64,802 characters of it to your wiki page. The rest is not saved. No error message and no warning - only pain for having edited a bunch of content you just lost. :)

I suspect this is a type or character limit error with the database field that stores the wiki content. I think it could also be a limit imposed by RedMine for a specific reason, but I have not been able to find documentation on this decision.

I imagine that many users will want to store large documents, like employee manuals or very complex blueprints, to Redmine wikis. For this reason, I don't think it is wise to impose a non-huge limit to the number of characters stored.

Does anyone know why such a limit exists? What is the formal process for discussing this issue and requesting a Redmine fix? I'm considering simply going into the Redmine database and changing the type definition on the wiki text storage column - is this a bad idea?

Redmine is beautiful software for which I am grateful. Thanks in advance for any help you can give.

Johnny