(Bug report) Unable to store attachments larger than 250 MB

[miltuss]

Trilium Version

0.63.5

What operating system are you using?

Other Linux

What is your setup?

Server access only

Operating System Version

Debian server

Description

Hello, I use trilium (docker) only with the web client on my server, but I cannot disable the file size limit set to 250 MB. However, I added the following environment variable in the docker-compose file
- TRILIUM_NO_UPLOAD_LIMIT=1
I also added it to the trilium config.ini file, but the 250MB limit has still not been deactivated!

How to disable this restriction?

Error logs

No response

[Nriver]

It works on my machine. I guess you did not set it right.

Just tested a big file, works fine.

Do you have something like Nginx in the front? There is also a upload limit in it.

[miltuss]

Do you have something like Nginx in the front? There is also a upload limit in it.

I don't use reverse proxy. Here is the docker compose file that I use :

version: '2.1'
services:
  trilium:
    image: zadam/trilium
    container_name: trilium
    networks:
        work:
            ipv4_address: 10.100.0.100
    environment:
      - TRILIUM_DATA_DIR=/home/node/trilium-data
      - TRILIUM_NO_UPLOAD_LIMIT=1
    ports:
      - 7000:8080
    volumes:
      - /data/trilium:/home/node/trilium-data
    restart: always

networks:
    work:
        external: true

Is there something I did wrong?

[miltuss]

I noticed that when the TRILIUM_NO_UPLOAD_LIMIT environment variable is used with the value "1", the limit moves from 250MB to 410MB. I managed to store 405 MB files but I couldn't store more than that.

Is it normal ?

Is there a way to disable this limit entirely?

[Nriver]

I've got an error message when upload with a 1GB file ERROR: Import failed with following error: 'The bound string, buffer, or bigint is too big'. I suppose this is not Trilium designed for.

[zadam]

Is there a way to disable this limit entirely?

No. Trilium is not designed as a "huge file storage".

[dosubot]

There’s no way to fully disable the file size limit in Trilium. Setting TRILIUM_NO_UPLOAD_LIMIT=1 removes the built-in 250MB application limit, but you’ll still hit a hard cap around 400–410MB due to how Node.js and the V8 engine handle large files in memory. This is a technical constraint: Trilium loads the entire file into memory as a string or buffer, and the underlying platform has a maximum size it can handle—errors like “The bound string, buffer, or bigint is too big” come from these limits, not Trilium itself. This cap isn’t related to the database backend and can’t be bypassed by configuration or environment variables. Trilium isn’t designed for large file storage, so for anything bigger, you’ll need to use external storage and link or reference those files in your notes instead.
More details here and here.

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