JLD2 MethodError when dealing with large dictionaries?

[cortner]

I have not had positive experiences with JLD and JLD2; and would recommend using JSON and HDF5. I’ve “complained” about it here:

Saving and Loading Custom Types

I’ve been having some difficulties storing custom data types, and would love to hear people’s suggestions and experiences. In the past I’ve always used JLD to convenient save / load custom types from disk. But recently I consistently had problems. About 95% of the time, my files would load ok, but 5% of the time (not randomly) they simply wouldn’t load even with the same version that I saved them with. Sometimes they would load on one machine but not on another. It is possible that this was a p…

(though I haven’t tried it again recently…)