problem error file too big to be opened

Alan Kilborn

Better be careful with the use of “he”. Of course the little pictures to the left (of some) of our names don’t necessarily have to tell the truth. ;)

Maybe even Claudia is not what she appears to be… :-)

Claudia Frank

@Alan-Kilborn

Maybe even Claudia is not what she appears to be

Alan, who knows - you might be wrong or right - I guess we will never find out
unless you find some leaked nude pictures at some celebrities websites :-D

Cheers
Claudia

Fun Fun

my message is very clear, and I am a man
.thank you

Claudia Frank

@Fun-Fun

sorry but it isn’t very clear because if, for example, you try to edit a 10GB file
you would immediately get a response that this won’t work and it is very unlikely
that there will be a solution in the near future.
BUT if you try to edit a 100MB file the answers would be different with some additional questions.

Cheers
Claudia

Fun Fun

ok, you want some detail, my file size 3 GB

Claudia Frank

@Fun-Fun

sorry but scintilla has, afaik, a 2 GB limit.
But this doesn’t mean that you can open a 2 GB file as scintilla internally
needs to allocate more bytes depending which lexer is used and if folding is active
and …
In addition the limit happens also if you have multiple big files you want to open
and which might have a total of 2 GB.

Cheers
Claudia

chcg

What about 64bit (https://notepad-plus-plus.org/repository/7.x/7.5.4/npp.7.5.4.Installer.x64.exe)? I guess @Fun-Fun you are using the 32bit version of N++.

Frank Orellana

3GB is a very big file, I’ve managed to open files that big in Notepad++ 64bits as @chcg says. But it might not be as fast as you would expect.

For files that big another editor might be useful (try VIM or something like that)

Claudia Frank

@chcg @Frank-Orellana

You were able to load a 3 GB file with notepad x64 version?
Afaik, there is this 2 GB internal scintilla limit how did you go around this?

Cheers
Claudia

Fun Fun

I used the 32-bit version and 64-bit version of N ++.
the problem remains the same.

Alan Kilborn

@Fun-Fun

I don’t know that it is a “problem” to not be able to open a 3GB file in Notepad++…well, maybe except for you. Notepad++, as others have stated, doesn’t have opening files that large in its design criterion.

Claudia Frank

OK - I did a test and was able to open a file with 1,9 GB but not more (7.5.4 x64)
So I think the 2 GB limit is still in place. (Must be as npp hasn’t updated scintilla recently anyway)

Cheers
Claudia

Claudia Frank

Did some further testing, pure ascii text file 2,146GB,
with 1MB more I do get the limit error.

Cheers
Claudia