Have you encountered this error message while working on any pages within Shopify?

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**Description can't be larger than 64 kilobytes.**

Below is a description of why this would occur as well as a work-around to prevent it from happening.

## The Problem

In some rare circumstances, you may run into a situation where your page is larger than 64kb (64 kilobytes). First off, 64kb is a huge amount of textual data. To give some idea of what 64kb really means:

``` text
64KB = 64000 bytes = 64,000 characters (@ 1 character/byte). Or, more than 10,000 English words.
```

This is not a Shopify imposed limit, rather it is a MySQL database cell limit for TEXT data type. In the rare event that you have a page that must exceed this database limit, don't worry - we have a work around for you.

## The Solution

In this situation, you must break up your data into smaller chunks **and** [create an alternate page template](/docs/storefronts/themes/architecture/templates/alternate-templates) for your special page to "glue" these chunks back together.

You can approach this in one of two ways:

- Use multiple **pages** to show the content
- Use multiple **snippets** to show the content.

Either way, the new alternate page template will be used to "glue" your content together.

> Tip:
> If you use snippets you must create any HTML for display yourself. If you use a page the RTE will build the HTML for you but you may still need to check the mark-up in HTML view to make sure it is precise.

**To get started:**

1. Create either your pages for your content or your snippets and make note of their names – you will need them to use in your template in order to "glue" them back together.

2. Make a new template based on your page template. If you are unclear on how to do this, please read [this page](/docs/storefronts/themes/architecture/templates/alternate-templates) before proceeding.

3. Once your special template has been created you need to call the broken up content into the template. For pages, your template will look something like this – using the page handles for each of your parts:

    ``` liquid
    
    <h1>{{ page.title }}</h1>
    {{ pages.terms-part-1.content }}
    {{ pages.terms-part-2.content }}
    {{ pages.terms-part-3.content }}
    
    ```

    If you are using snippets then your page code should look something like this:

    ``` liquid
    
    <h1>{{ page.title }}</h1>
    {% render 'terms-part-1' %}
    {% render 'terms-part-2' %}
    {% render 'terms-part-3' %}
    
    ```