David Koes has, I believe, already extended this limit:
https://github.com/openbabel/openbabel/pull/1546
This is now in the master, if you want to try building from the git repo.
It's a file size limit, rather than no. of molecules so using SMILES
should also help.
- Noel
On 27 April 2017 at 11
I just tried to create a fastsearch index for a large file containing several
million structures and I get this error.
*** Open Babel Error in WriteChemObject
The datafile must not be larger than 4GB
Is there a limit in the number of structures that can be handled? Or would it
be better to s