Save as Template Size Limitation:

When trying to save a site template and move it to another server while retaining the content but the size of the site is limitation to save as template. By default there is a 10MB size limitation built in.

If you try to save the list as a template that is larger than 10BM you will get the following error:
“ The list is too large to save as template. The size of a template cannot exceed 1048760 bytes “

How to increase template size :

Run the following stsadm command (from c:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\Bin directory) replace the propertyvalue to the new maximum size (in bytes)

stsadm -o setproperty -propertyname max-template-document-size -propertyvalue 50000000

Note: The above command to increase the max size of both site and list template.

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