The current number of blank lines that are appended to checked-out sheets is 500, set in config.py. Curators will occasionally need to adjust this number when adding a large number of new rows to a table (e.g. adding new publications to master).
The run.py needs a command line option to modify config.PADCOUNT_DEFAULT to be any valid positive integer (within reason). For example run.py -xo master -pd 50000.