Import of csv files and input via copy/paste lead to errors

Technical Help
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Are you using our SaaS platform (Baserow.io) or self-hosting Baserow?

Self-hosted

If you are self-hosting, what version of Baserow are you running?

Baserow 2.1.4

If you are self-hosting, which installation method do you use to run Baserow?

Docker 29.3.0

What are the exact steps to reproduce this issue?

I have a file in xlsx with 5000 lines. When I try to import the csv into a new table (create table via import) there comes an error message saying “Aktion nicht abgeschlossen.
Die Aktion konnte nicht abgeschlossen werden, weil ein unbekannter Fehler aufgetreten ist.”
=> If I try the same via copy/paste the same error appears.
If I take less data (<1000) it works via both ways - csv + copy/paste.
=> As from my understanding this is not really helpfull. Imagine I have even more data this would make the usage even more not feasable. So what is the error message? & How can I solve this? - What are parameters that have an effect on this & I can & should edit if needed.

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Hey @moonday,

There shouldn’t be any issue importing a file with 5k rows, unless you have hundreds of fields in the table, as we can easily handle 10x or even 100x that size. The fact that it works with fewer than 1,000 rows might not be the file size itself, but rather a specific value somewhere past row 1,000 that’s causing the import to fail (e.g. an unexpected format, encoding issue, or invalid character).

To help us pinpoint the cause, could you share the Docker container logs from when the import fails? There should be a traceback or error detail that will tell us exactly what’s going wrong.

You can grab them with:

docker logs <container_name>

Run this right after a failed import attempt so the relevant error is near the end of the output.

Also, how big is the file you’re trying to import? Do you have the same issue with some other file? I asked AI to generate a file with 30k rows and 10 fields and I imported it in a few seconds.