save workspace does not save some variables

When saving some variables from the workspace to a .MAT file, some variables are skipped every time.

The variable in question is quite large (6000x100,000), so I was wondering whether there is a size restriction in play. I tried looking through the Matlab help files on saving the workspace but could not find any information on this problem.

This problem occurred using windows and mac computers, both using the latest version of Matlab for 64 bit computers.

My question is twofold. Firstly, is the size of these variables restricted? And secondly, if this is the case, how do I circumvent this?

Answer 1

[Tom]

I believe it is- try saying as a version 7.3 file. To do that you just add '-v7.3' when you are sending to the save function, see

doc save

for details.

Answer 2

[Samuel]

That did it.

thanks!