diff --git a/memgpt/agent.py b/memgpt/agent.py
index 8c5ea60428..7e58741973 100644
--- a/memgpt/agent.py
+++ b/memgpt/agent.py
@@ -771,11 +771,8 @@ def edit_memory(self, name, content):
         return None
 
     def edit_memory_append(self, name, content):
-        print("edit append")
         new_len = self.memory.edit_append(name, content)
-        print("rebuild memory")
         self.rebuild_memory()
-        print("done")
         return None
 
     def edit_memory_replace(self, name, old_content, new_content):
diff --git a/memgpt/cli/cli.py b/memgpt/cli/cli.py
index 09f5d26e6d..e545986d25 100644
--- a/memgpt/cli/cli.py
+++ b/memgpt/cli/cli.py
@@ -165,21 +165,26 @@ def attach(
 ):
     # loads the data contained in data source into the agent's memory
     from memgpt.connectors.storage import StorageConnector
+    from tqdm import tqdm
 
     agent_config = AgentConfig.load(agent)
-    config = MemGPTConfig.load()
 
     # get storage connectors
     source_storage = StorageConnector.get_storage_connector(name=data_source)
     dest_storage = StorageConnector.get_storage_connector(agent_config=agent_config)
 
-    passages = source_storage.get_all()
-    for p in passages:
-        len(p.embedding) == config.embedding_dim, f"Mismatched embedding sizes {len(p.embedding)} != {config.embedding_dim}"
-    dest_storage.insert_many(passages)
+    size = source_storage.size()
+    typer.secho(f"Ingesting {size} passages into {agent_config.name}", fg=typer.colors.GREEN)
+    page_size = 100
+    generator = source_storage.get_all_paginated(page_size=page_size)  # yields List[Passage]
+    for i in tqdm(range(0, size, page_size)):
+        passages = next(generator)
+        dest_storage.insert_many(passages, show_progress=False)
+
+    # save destination storage
     dest_storage.save()
 
-    total_agent_passages = len(dest_storage.get_all())
+    total_agent_passages = dest_storage.size()
 
     typer.secho(
         f"Attached data source {data_source} to agent {agent}, consisting of {len(passages)}. Agent now has {total_agent_passages} embeddings in archival memory.",
diff --git a/memgpt/connectors/db.py b/memgpt/connectors/db.py
index 2bbaebc4f2..4ea68c511b 100644
--- a/memgpt/connectors/db.py
+++ b/memgpt/connectors/db.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 
 import re
 from tqdm import tqdm
-from typing import Optional, List
+from typing import Optional, List, Iterator
 import numpy as np
 from tqdm import tqdm
 
@@ -76,9 +76,26 @@ def __init__(self, name: Optional[str] = None, agent_config: Optional[AgentConfi
         self.Session = sessionmaker(bind=self.engine)
         self.Session().execute(text("CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS vector"))  # Enables the vector extension
 
-    def get_all(self) -> List[Passage]:
+    def get_all_paginated(self, page_size: int) -> Iterator[List[Passage]]:
         session = self.Session()
-        db_passages = session.query(self.db_model).all()
+        offset = 0
+        while True:
+            # Retrieve a chunk of records with the given page_size
+            db_passages_chunk = session.query(self.db_model).offset(offset).limit(page_size).all()
+
+            # If the chunk is empty, we've retrieved all records
+            if not db_passages_chunk:
+                break
+
+            # Yield a list of Passage objects converted from the chunk
+            yield [Passage(text=p.text, embedding=p.embedding, doc_id=p.doc_id, passage_id=p.id) for p in db_passages_chunk]
+
+            # Increment the offset to get the next chunk in the next iteration
+            offset += page_size
+
+    def get_all(self, limit=10) -> List[Passage]:
+        session = self.Session()
+        db_passages = session.query(self.db_model).limit(limit).all()
         return [Passage(text=p.text, embedding=p.embedding, doc_id=p.doc_id, passage_id=p.id) for p in db_passages]
 
     def get(self, id: str) -> Optional[Passage]:
@@ -88,6 +105,11 @@ def get(self, id: str) -> Optional[Passage]:
             return None
         return Passage(text=db_passage.text, embedding=db_passage.embedding, doc_id=db_passage.doc_id, passage_id=db_passage.passage_id)
 
+    def size(self) -> int:
+        # return size of table
+        session = self.Session()
+        return session.query(self.db_model).count()
+
     def insert(self, passage: Passage):
         session = self.Session()
         db_passage = self.db_model(doc_id=passage.doc_id, text=passage.text, embedding=passage.embedding)
diff --git a/memgpt/connectors/local.py b/memgpt/connectors/local.py
index dd77637914..233856c8da 100644
--- a/memgpt/connectors/local.py
+++ b/memgpt/connectors/local.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-from typing import Optional, List
+from typing import Optional, List, Iterator
 from memgpt.config import AgentConfig, MemGPTConfig
 from tqdm import tqdm
 import re
@@ -72,11 +72,19 @@ def add_nodes(self, nodes: List[TextNode]):
         self.nodes += nodes
         self.index = VectorStoreIndex(self.nodes)
 
-    def get_all(self) -> List[Passage]:
+    def get_all_paginated(self, page_size: int = 100) -> Iterator[List[Passage]]:
+        """Get all passages in the index"""
+        nodes = self.get_nodes()
+        for i in tqdm(range(0, len(nodes), page_size)):
+            yield [Passage(text=node.text, embedding=node.embedding) for node in nodes[i : i + page_size]]
+
+    def get_all(self, limit: int) -> List[Passage]:
         passages = []
         for node in self.get_nodes():
             assert node.embedding is not None, f"Node embedding is None"
             passages.append(Passage(text=node.text, embedding=node.embedding))
+            if len(passages) >= limit:
+                break
         return passages
 
     def get(self, id: str) -> Passage:
@@ -126,3 +134,6 @@ def list_loaded_data():
             name = os.path.basename(data_source_file)
             sources.append(name)
         return sources
+
+    def size(self):
+        return len(self.get_nodes())
diff --git a/memgpt/connectors/storage.py b/memgpt/connectors/storage.py
index 6fd485a79f..21a69cb8e1 100644
--- a/memgpt/connectors/storage.py
+++ b/memgpt/connectors/storage.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 We originally tried to use Llama Index VectorIndex, but their limited API was extremely problematic.
 """
-from typing import Optional, List
+from typing import Optional, List, Iterator
 import re
 import pickle
 import os
@@ -66,7 +66,11 @@ def list_loaded_data():
             raise NotImplementedError(f"Storage type {storage_type} not implemented")
 
     @abstractmethod
-    def get_all(self) -> List[Passage]:
+    def get_all_paginated(self, page_size: int) -> Iterator[List[Passage]]:
+        pass
+
+    @abstractmethod
+    def get_all(self, limit: int) -> List[Passage]:
         pass
 
     @abstractmethod
@@ -89,3 +93,8 @@ def query(self, query: str, query_vec: List[float], top_k: int = 10) -> List[Pas
     def save(self):
         """Save state of storage connector"""
         pass
+
+    @abstractmethod
+    def size(self):
+        """Get number of passages (text/embedding pairs) in storage"""
+        pass
diff --git a/memgpt/memory.py b/memgpt/memory.py
index 126a2c3143..83cf3a6e10 100644
--- a/memgpt/memory.py
+++ b/memgpt/memory.py
@@ -818,11 +818,10 @@ async def a_insert(self, memory_string):
     def __repr__(self) -> str:
         limit = 10
         passages = []
-        for passage in list(self.storage.get_all())[:limit]:  # TODO: only get first 10
+        for passage in list(self.storage.get_all(limit)):  # TODO: only get first 10
             passages.append(str(passage.text))
         memory_str = "\n".join(passages)
         return f"\n### ARCHIVAL MEMORY ###" + f"\n{memory_str}"
 
     def __len__(self):
-        print("get archival storage size")
-        return len(self.storage.get_all())
+        return self.storage.size()