# Failed to upload after a large number of files successfully uploaded

**URL:** https://community.transloadit.com/t/failed-to-upload-after-a-large-number-of-files-successfully-uploaded/16862
**Category:** Tus
**Created:** [October 20, 2023, 3:09pm UTC](https://community.transloadit.com/t/failed-to-upload-after-a-large-number-of-files-successfully-uploaded/16862 "2023-10-20T15:09:20Z")
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### Author: ![ckcabs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@ckcabs](https://community.transloadit.com/u/ckcabs)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2023, 3:09pm UTC](https://community.transloadit.com/t/failed-to-upload-after-a-large-number-of-files-successfully-uploaded/16862/1 "2023-10-20T15:09:20Z")

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i am uploading 8gb of files ( about 6500 files) and after 6000 files it started to fail

there is not much in the logs

```auto
Line 152113: [tusd] 2023/10/20 11:40:37.150712 event="UploadCreated" id="7de679ce7aebf4da26e4e1b564b1abec" size="33792" url="<https://discover.nalytics.net/files/7de679ce7aebf4da26e4e1b564b1abec>" 

Line 152115: [tusd] 2023/10/20 11:40:37.150879 event="HookInvocationStart" type="post-create" id="7de679ce7aebf4da26e4e1b564b1abec" 
Line 152116: [tusd] 2023/10/20 11:40:37.151220 event="HookInvocationFinish" type="post-create" id="7de679ce7aebf4da26e4e1b564b1abec" 

Line 153024: [tusd] 2023/10/20 11:40:39.895783 event="RequestIncoming" method="HEAD" path="7de679ce7aebf4da26e4e1b564b1abec" requestId="" 
Line 153025: [tusd] 2023/10/20 11:40:39.896067 event="ResponseOutgoing" status="200" method="HEAD" path="7de679ce7aebf4da26e4e1b564b1abec" requestId="" 

Line 153414: [tusd] 2023/10/20 11:40:42.388899 event="RequestIncoming" method="HEAD" path="7de679ce7aebf4da26e4e1b564b1abec" requestId="" 
Line 153415: [tusd] 2023/10/20 11:40:42.389239 event="ResponseOutgoing" status="200" method="HEAD" path="7de679ce7aebf4da26e4e1b564b1abec" requestId="" 

Line 153804: [tusd] 2023/10/20 11:40:46.450662 event="RequestIncoming" method="HEAD" path="7de679ce7aebf4da26e4e1b564b1abec" requestId="" 
Line 153805: [tusd] 2023/10/20 11:40:46.450893 event="ResponseOutgoing" status="200" method="HEAD" path="7de679ce7aebf4da26e4e1b564b1abec" requestId="" 

Line 154194: [tusd] 2023/10/20 11:40:53.531938 event="RequestIncoming" method="HEAD" path="7de679ce7aebf4da26e4e1b564b1abec" requestId="" 
Line 154195: [tusd] 2023/10/20 11:40:53.532193 event="ResponseOutgoing" status="200" method="HEAD" path="7de679ce7aebf4da26e4e1b564b1abec" requestId="" 

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only that it keeps trying to do a head request to continue to get the current upload-offset

there is in the data directory - the info file with all the metadata and the other file which is 0kb  
 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/uploads/transloadit/original/1X/6dc0bffa87e45ea95a834e69b7137a07827de09f.png)

any help would be much appreciated  
is there a max upload setting??

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### Author: ![marius](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/user_avatar/community.transloadit.com/marius/32/572_2.png) [@marius](https://community.transloadit.com/u/marius)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2023, 6:21am UTC](https://community.transloadit.com/t/failed-to-upload-after-a-large-number-of-files-successfully-uploaded/16862/2 "2023-10-23T06:21:49Z")

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> [@ckcabs](#):
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> is there a max upload setting??

No, there is not feature to limit the number of uploads in tusd.

> [@ckcabs](#):
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> it started to fail

What do you mean by failing? Are there any errors on the server or client?