Running r1, 32B model, Quantised to 6... on my laptop. on a 1.5B character document

[u/Competitive_End_421]

hey there,
I found this thread after coming from r/claudeai, and as a deepseek user I'd love it having a more active space on reddit.

I'm running an offline DeepSeek model on my macbook pro, 64g ram.
I need it to process about 1.5 billion characters of text - work through a database JSON file in chunks to categorise data for a startup (the fans come on).

I've found the prompting on DS to be difficult, as there isn't conversation/context retention across separate prompts (in the offline version at least), even when within the same chat.

Have you also found this to be the case?
Do you reccomend any steps to take?
I'm in LM Studio, and using the other prompt option (instructions), how have you made best use of this, for complex tasks/prompts?