Comments on: Increasing the maximum size of list templates

By: Matt Pinkston

Matt Pinkston — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 23:26:28 +0000

Our main list called BP which is details around our pursuit budgets is accessible via standard SharePoint forms and custom developed list forms developed in SPD.

However we cannot backup the data using the standard save as a template, this give is the following error:

http://blogs.technet.com/b/sharepointcomic/archive/2008/11/18/failure-decompressing-data-from-a-cabinet-file.aspx

We also tried to backup by creating a standard view with all the table fields and tried to export to excel, but we get this error:
connecting to datasource then…

The other function we tried was to connect the SharePoint list BP to MS Access and open the table BP after import but that also errors with:

By: Ari Bakker

Ari Bakker — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 18:16:58 +0000

@J you can use the following PowerShell to increase the size in SharePoint 2010:

[void][System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName(“Microsoft.SharePoint”)
[void][System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName(“Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration”)

$contentService = [Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPWebService]::ContentService
write-host “MaxTemplateDocumentSize before: ” $contentService.MaxTemplateDocumentSize
$contentService.MaxTemplateDocumentSize = 52428800
$contentService.Update()
write-host “MaxTemplateDocumentSize after: ” $contentService.MaxTemplateDocumentSize

By: J

Sat, 04 Dec 2010 03:00:24 +0000

-propertyname max-template-document-size does not seem to exist for MOSS2010, any idea what it changed to? I see some possibly related, but nothing obvious…
Thx in advance.

By: arun

arun — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:57:23 +0000

Hi Bakker

Thanks for post

After i increase the size of templates list , i have another problem “Failure decompressing data from a cabinet file” DO you have any idea how to recover from this

By: Ari Bakker

Ari Bakker — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:14:03 +0000

@dani3lr to create a list from a template navigate to the List Template Gallery (Site Actions > Site Settings > Galleries | List templates) and upload the template file. You should then see the list appear on the ‘Create’ page (Site Actions > View All Site Content > Create).

By: dani3lr

dani3lr — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:17:40 +0000

sorry, for my lack of skill.
I consider that it can be the way to backup list or document library.
If I succeed to “save list as template” include content, how to use it to restore or export back to the list?

By: Geoffrey

Geoffrey — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Great post. Thank you very much!

By: Shani Bagley

Shani Bagley — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Thank you! That did the trick.

By: Sean Wallbridge

Sean Wallbridge — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks, very helpful. I ran it, worked immediately, no need for iisreset under normal circumstances I suppose.

By: Ashraf

Ashraf — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Same thing as Craig… I successfully ran the command, reset iis but still having the same error message…