Preview / Append fails with text fields with greater than 255 characters

[chris-fox]

It looks like the staging database is hard coding the text field it creates to a length of 255 even if the source and target support larger than that. So it fails when it attempts to append data into the staging feature class.

[MikeMillerGIS]

should we just move it to 2000?

[chris-fox]

Why not just use the value of the target to truly reflect the output?

[MikeMillerGIS]

or that :)

[pLeBlanc93]

I vote for 2^31-1.

http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/latest/manage-data/administer-file-gdbs/file-geodatabase-size-and-name-limits.htm