Lightroom saying files too big

When importing a folder under LIBRARY I get a message telling me "The following files were not imported. The files are too big"
Anyone know what the size limit is or why I would get this error. The files are 7 of 50 all the same size.
Peter

> Lee Jay, how can we stop "whining" about it when it is so clearly a design flaw?
Because it's not an LR design-flaw, and the team is *fully* aware of the issue.
> It is not acceptable in any way like it is.
Really? So, I guess the fact that I get tremendous use out of it right now is an illusion? ACR was developed for *RAW* files. It was extended to process non-RAW files *this year* - an extension that generated this issue. The next step is to extend the extension to handle large files. This was not an issue for RAW files since there aren't any cameras that can produce RAW images of this size.
> An Lee Jay, even though you are satisified does not mean that LR in some ways totally lack the functionality that is needed. The fact that it is a 1.x product is not an excuse for anything.
Really? How'd you like Photoshop 1? DOS 1? Did you use Windows 1?
BTW, I'm not satisfied. I doubt I'll ever be satisfied. But it's absolutely the best 1.x product I've ever used, and it's getting better all the time. This is one edge-case that needs to be addressed. If you think I'm satisfied, you should see the 2-page single-spaced, one-per-line feature request list I submitted (which had this on it). Yet, what it doesn't have doesn't detract from what it does have, which is a powerful set of tools for *most* people to use on *most* of their images.
I use PTGui, Panorama Tools, Autopano, and enblend to produce my panos. I have quite a few, and every single one is over 10,000 pixels. For now, I've just created 7200 pixel versions for import into LR, and this lets me know the larger ones are available in the folder. Happily, I can just right-click on one and hit "show in explorer" to see the larger ones, and double-click those to edit them in PS. All of this is a very minor annoyance for handling large panos.

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