[Pycharm IDE]File size exceeds configured limit(2.5M). Code insight features are not available

File size exceeds the configured limit(2.5M)

Working a crawler that involves capturing big sizes of data for your research. Using Pycharm IDE, I realize that it has a file size configuration limit that is 2.5Mb. And I get the message file size exceeds the configured limit.

True, the file size limit is mainly to protect your storage and the default 2.5Mb is enough for general files. But the crawler is probably generating a large file size bigger than the default file size specified by the IDE.

In this article, we will increase the default file size for PyCharm IDE. If you follow the steps below you will be able to change the default file size in MacOS.

The file size is set in the idea.properties file in the ./Application/PyCharm.app/Contents/bin directory.

Step 1: Application Directory

Open the application directory and right-click on the PyCharm application

Step 2: Show Package Contents

Click on the show package contents to open PyCharm application contents.

Step 3: Bin Folder

Open the bin folder in the Contents folder. The configuration file we are looking for is in the bin folder.

Step 4: idea.properties File

idea.properties file contains the configuration for the default file size that the IDE is using.

Step 5: Inside idea.properties

Open idea.properties file found in the bin folder in a text editor of your choice.

Step 6: Edit idea.properties File

Now, change the value of idea.max.intellisense.filesize from 2500 to the value that you will be comfortable with. I change mine to 25000.

I hope this post solves your problem.