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    • Adam Dendy
      Adam Dendy last edited by

      As above, I’m receiving this error message, but after some quick searches in Google is seems that there should be no issues with opening files under 2GB.

      My file size is just over 0.7GB but for some reason is being immediately rejected by Notepad++

      Any ideas on how to combat this issue?

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      • Ekopalypse
        Ekopalypse last edited by

        but after some quick searches in Google is seems that there should be no issues with opening files under 2GB

        Depends, what npp version are you running?
        See and post debug-info from last menu, the ? menu.

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          • Adam Dendy
            Adam Dendy @Ekopalypse last edited by

            @Ekopalypse using npp v.7.8.3 32-bit

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            • Ekopalypse
              Ekopalypse last edited by

              @Adam-Dendy said in File size problem - File is too big to be opened by Notepad++:

              32-bit

              That means, as far as I’m aware, that npp itself can have only
              ~2GB of RAM allocated in total as the other halve gets used by the OS.
              Every open documents counts.
              If the file you want to open is a file which gets lexed,
              meaning colored by a lexer, then scintilla has to allocate additional
              RAM which might end up in double the size of the file.
              Npp identifies which lexer gets assigned via the extension of a file.

              So in order to get your file opened, you might test to start another
              npp instance without any document open and if needed to rename the
              file to a .txt extension as this one is, normally, assigned to no lexer.

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              • Alan Kilborn
                Alan Kilborn last edited by

                Another suggestion might be to grab a portable 64-bit version of Notepad++ and see if it can open the file. If not, maybe add to that some of @Ekopalypse 's suggestions. And if you finally get the file open this way, maybe consider a permanent move to Notepad++ 64-bit?

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                • Adam Dendy
                  Adam Dendy last edited by

                  I didn’t manage to get it opened changing it to .txt - I will try using the 64-bit version and hopefully this will resolve my issue.

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                  • Adam Dendy
                    Adam Dendy @Alan Kilborn last edited by

                    @Alan-Kilborn have downloaded and installed 64-bit version and success! Thanks for the tip off, appreciate both yours and @Ekopalypse ’ help!

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                        • Pavel P
                          Pavel P last edited by

                          Same problem for me. 388MB file and notepad++ cannot open it. What a fail.

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                          • PeterJones
                            PeterJones @Pavel P last edited by

                            @Pavel-P ,

                            I have opened files that big or bigger in Notepad++, so Notepad++ can open a 388MB file.

                            If you have a problem, you need to describe the circumstances of the problem with more detail than that. Please see https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/15739/faq-desk-request-for-help-without-sufficient-information-to-help-you, then come back and give us something to work with.

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