# Export Apple Shortcuts error **URL:** \ **Category:** Bear Bug Report\ **Created:** [November 21, 2025, 3:24pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/export-apple-shortcuts-error/18482 "2025-11-21T15:24:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bolive](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.bear.app/bolive/32/3160_2.png) [@bolive](https://community.bear.app/u/bolive)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2025, 3:24pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/export-apple-shortcuts-error/18482/1 "2025-11-21T15:24:40Z")
- **Bear Version** : 2.6.4 - **OS Version** : iOS 26 Apple Shortcut error when running an export on a note that has a MOV file. The export in the app works but errors in the Shortcut. ---
**Author:** ![trix180](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.bear.app/trix180/32/588_2.png) [@trix180](https://community.bear.app/u/trix180)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2025, 8:20am UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/export-apple-shortcuts-error/18482/2 "2025-11-24T08:20:56Z")
My guess here is that the shortcut extensions crashes because of the memory occupied by the mov file. If you copy the note content but not the mov in another note and try to export it, do you get the same error? ---
**Author:** ![bolive](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.bear.app/bolive/32/3160_2.png) [@bolive](https://community.bear.app/u/bolive)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2025, 11:31am UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/export-apple-shortcuts-error/18482/3 "2025-11-25T11:31:02Z")
That works fine. So, using Shortcuts for the export uses more memory than exporting directly from Bear? Temporarily I have an IF condition to ignore notes with MOV hoping there was a solution. I also found that notes with PNG give the same error. ---
**Author:** ![trix180](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.bear.app/trix180/32/588_2.png) [@trix180](https://community.bear.app/u/trix180)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2025, 12:52pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/export-apple-shortcuts-error/18482/4 "2025-11-25T12:52:15Z")
> [@bolive](#): > > Shortcuts for the export uses more memory than exporting directly from Bear? No, the problem is that all the macOS and iOS app extensions have a 30Mb memory limit. ---
**Author:** ![pfarrelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6f9a4e/32.png) [@pfarrelle](https://community.bear.app/u/pfarrelle)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2026, 8:51pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/export-apple-shortcuts-error/18482/5 "2026-09-27T20:51:47Z")
I am familiar with the memory limits but have a similar problem with a file that doesn’t seem too big. ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/bear/original/2X/6/67c459683c93bfd8c128f348b37c3df7939aebfe.png) I have a backup shortcut that looks for changed notes to backup and the shortcut fails when I try to export this note as markdown. The note is essentially one long table of links, with a single link and an optional comment per row: ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/bear/original/2X/0/0bd1a8e10164db9d694929819eb3906a7ad1067e.png) Looking at the data in BBEdit, I see 492 unescaped `|` characters indicating that the table has 246 rows. ---
**Author:** ![trix180](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.bear.app/trix180/32/588_2.png) [@trix180](https://community.bear.app/u/trix180)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2026, 7:44am UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/export-apple-shortcuts-error/18482/6 "2026-09-28T07:44:06Z")
@pfarrelle can you tell me the format you are exporting the note to? ---
**Author:** ![pfarrelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6f9a4e/32.png) [@pfarrelle](https://community.bear.app/u/pfarrelle)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2026, 3:39pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/export-apple-shortcuts-error/18482/7 "2026-09-28T15:39:46Z")
Markdown. Here’s a screenshot of the working code that skips the file with the large? table. ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/bear/original/2X/c/cad1e78e5298eeccb4abf34825ca85746873ab50.png)