Remove the fileContents column by default?

[wetneb]

I wonder what use case you have in mind for the fileContents column?
Because OpenRefine isn't great at storing longer texts in cells, it has the tendency to make the table a lot less compact.
The fact that only the beginning of the text is stored also restricts the potential uses we can make of it.

For those reasons I would be tempted to remove it, either completely or just by default, with an option to enable it if needed (which could also be the occasion to configure the maximum length of the contents stored in it, making the feature potentially more useful).

[magdmartin]

I agree with @wetneb.

I tested the extension loading a folder with many large XML files (10 files, each 500MB in size), and OpenRefine crashed with java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space. When I tested it again with smaller XML files, it worked, and the content of each XML was loaded into the FileContent column.