# Best approach to import large texts for searching **URL:** \ **Category:** Ask for Help\ **Created:** [April 4, 2025, 1:19pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/best-approach-to-import-large-texts-for-searching/81179 "2025-04-04T13:19:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 7
**Author:** ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2025, 11:29pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/best-approach-to-import-large-texts-for-searching/81179/7 "2025-04-08T23:29:26Z")
> [@mimof](#): > > Do you know if the rest of the ‘Full text’ for that report will be truncated during the import, or if it will just ‘drop’ that record? Hopefully it’ll be truncated and imported. I don’t have a sample here that I can use, but I think that would be truncated. > [@Splitting a large CSV file into multiple smaller files](https://community.glideapps.com/t/splitting-a-large-csv-file-into-multiple-smaller-files/72774): > > Just this past weekend I needed to migrate a large amount of data from a regular Glide Table to a Big Table. Glide conveniently provides import/export options directly from the Data Editor to help with this. However the file size of my exported data came out at a bit over 25MB, and the maximum size file you can import into a Big Table is 4.8MB. So my CSV file needed to be split up into smaller bite sized chunks that Glide could handle. As this is something I can see I’ll probably need to do aga… You can use the approach above to split your file. --- _[View the full topic](https://community.glideapps.com/t/best-approach-to-import-large-texts-for-searching/81179)._