-I was doing some trouble shooting and seeing if I could edit > 1000 records on a standard data set. Using ~3,100 county centroids, everything worked fine with making local copy, updating field and the syncing with master. So that threw out my max 1,000 record limit theory.
-Stepping up the complexity, I tried the county shapefile/polygons. This not only failed but also crashed my system every time I attempted. So I took a guess and simplified the polygons by 1,000 meters. With the simplified polygons the update process worked.
-Using the same approach to my 5,000 record data set, I simplified my polygons by 100 meters. This did not impact the majority of the areas (Most of them were rectangles) but we did have about 1,000 circles. I estimated that the circles probably had ~100 vertices, that were simplified to an octagon. Net change per circle of 92 vertices x 1,000 instances simplified the entire dataset by ~92,000 vertices (All high level estimates).
-Once simplified, all the data editing/updates were working. I am assuming that there is not really a record “count” limit but some type of file size/complexity limit that can be handled with this workflow.
I hope this is helpful if someone else runs into the issue.
