diff --git a/matlab/global_initialization.m b/matlab/global_initialization.m
index 9f7524e2d..d713fde8b 100644
--- a/matlab/global_initialization.m
+++ b/matlab/global_initialization.m
@@ -400,7 +400,7 @@ options_.dataset.nobs = NaN;
 options_.dataset.xls_sheet = [];
 options_.dataset.xls_range = [];
 options_.Harvey_scale_factor = 10;
-options_.MaxNumberOfBytes = 1e6;
+options_.MaxNumberOfBytes = 1e8;
 options_.MaximumNumberOfMegaBytes = 111;
 options_.analytic_derivation = 0;
 options_.analytic_derivation_mode = 0;