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S.C. E-Filing Attorney Guide: ARG-16-Filing Large Documents and Additional Parts
ARG-16-Filing Large Documents and Additional Parts
ARG-16: Filing Large Documents and Additional Parts
Attorney Reference Guide
Reference Guide Contents:
File Size Limitations...................................................................................................... 1
Submit a Document with Additional Parts................................................................... 2
File Size Limitations
The file size limitation for an individual document is 8 MB. The entire submission cannot exceed 40 MB.
Multiple documents can be included in a single submission. If you have a document larger than 8 MB,
it will need to be divided into multiple parts. When you do this, it is helpful to save the individual parts
with consistent file names such as “Summons and Complaint-Part 2”, “Summons and Complaint-Part
3”, etc.
To determine the size of your document(s):
• Review the document using Windows
Explorer
• A 500 page, text-only document will be
approximately 1000 KB or 1 MB
• A document size greater than 8000 KB or 8
MB, must be divided into multiple parts
• Charts, tables and color increase the size of
the document
• Converting a Word document to PDF will
typically reduce the size of the file
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Submit a Document with Additional Parts
1. From the Home page choose the New Case or Existing Cases button, whichever is applicable.
2. Add the first part of the divided document for your submission. See the Reference Guides
entitled Initiating a Case and E-Filing to an Existing Case for more information.
3. Select the On Behalf of case party once the document has been added.
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4. To add the additional part(s), the Action Type will be Filing.
5. Select the Action of E-Filing/Additional Parts.
6. Click Choose File to locate the additional part to be included in the pleading.
7. Select Add and the Attach a SubDocument page appears.
8. Choose the document to which the Additional Part will be attached. Click Next and the Add a
Document page re-opens.
Continue with steps 4 through 8 until all additional parts of the document have been added for the
submission or the maximum size for a submission (40 MB) has been reached. The example below
shows three parts of a document that have been added for the filing.
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9. Click Next when all documents have been added, and the Review and Approve Filing page
opens to review and complete your submission.
See the Reference Guide entitled Initiating a Case and the section on Payment and Case
Status for instructions.
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Provenance
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- www.sccourts.org
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-02
- Edition
- supplied-sc-08-18-arg-16-filing-large-documents-and-additional-parts-2026-10-02
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