04.05.2021, 08:46
Hi Alice,
Thank you for your clarification.
Indeed, working with a table document that contains 160,000 rows can affect the performance of the software. Let me quote from our technical limitations chapter of the MAXQDA online manual: "For table documents, the time it takes to open the document depends on the number of rows/columns and the size of the cell contents. For 1,000 rows of 20 columns, it may take a few seconds for the document to open. The time to open is also affected by how many codes there are in the table. The coding and editing of cells in an open table document with 1,000 rows and 20 columns can then be completed without any delays." Therefore, the performance issues you are currently experiencing are regrettably something to be expected. I suspect that saving such a large table document as an external document wouldn't do much good either, since MAXQDA would need time to process and open the equally large number of rows in any case.
Should you need further assistance on this matter, please contact us via sending us a ticket: https://www.maxqda.com/function-support
With best regards
MAXQDA Support Team