[mkgmap-dev] when I use SPLITTER to IMPORT om.pbf files into JOSM I get error

I am trying to use JOSM for offline editing and osm.pbf files created by splitter r427 cause this error when importing into JOSM r9329 with the pbf import plugin: Could not read file '12360002.osm.pbf'. Error is: java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException: Index: 0 I think I saw a post that there might be missing meta data from the osm.pbf files produced by splitter. JOSM has a max of 50000 node for input files. Is there a different 'splitter' that JOSM can import?