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    • Fedorus
      Fedorus last edited by

      Is there any way to open huge files? 12gb+

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      • Meta Chuh
        Meta Chuh @Fedorus last edited by

        @Fedorus

        unfortunately notepad++ (64 bit) can not handle files larger than appx 2gb.

        you will have to use another program to open these large files.
        it has to be one that does not read the whole file into memory, but only a small frame of it, like some hex editors or disk editors.

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        • rinku singh
          rinku singh last edited by

          @Fedorus said:

          12gb+

          recently i was tested npp and Glogg for huge file [16gb]
          Glogg is best tool as log file explorer.

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          • andrecool-68
            andrecool-68 last edited by

            What kind of monster is that big?

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            • Meta Chuh
              Meta Chuh @andrecool-68 last edited by

              @andrecool-68

              What kind of monster is that big?

              maybe he wants to open an .mkv movie in notepad++ ? ;-)

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              • andrecool-68
                andrecool-68 @Meta Chuh last edited by

                @Meta-Chuh
                100%

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                • PeterJones
                  PeterJones last edited by PeterJones

                  @andrecool-68 asked,

                  What kind of monster is that big?

                  In the data manipulation realms – like big data / machine learning, or in the genetic realm’s FASTA files – huge files can be used.

                  For example: In genetic FASTA files, this site from 7 years ago indicates that the number of bytes of the FASTA file are roughly the same as the number of base pairs; genome.gov says that the human genome is about 3 billion base pairs (so about 3Gb). Per Science magazine, there’s a flower than has 149 billion base pairs, which would be on the order of 150GB in the FASTA text format.

                  Someone might conceivably try to open that file in a text editor.

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                  • Florent Pagès
                    Florent Pagès last edited by

                    Try vim for very big files.

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                    • Meta Chuh
                      Meta Chuh @Florent Pagès last edited by

                      thanks for your suggestion, @Florent-Pagès

                      but vim 8.x will take a very, very, very long time, if you try to open a 12gb (12288mb) file on any platform (mac, ubuntu and windows) as it will try to load the entire document first, and only stop when a certain memory limit is reached.
                      (8.1.1 will crash on occasions on huge files)

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