• @[email protected]
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    1310 months ago

    Notepad++ can’t handle as big files for some reason. At work we have files that can reach 5-600 MB, and NP++ can’t always open those, but notepad handles then with no problem.

    • @[email protected]
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      1210 months ago

      I had the same problem but noticed that I was using the 32 bit version of notepad++, installed the 64 bits instead and had no problems with large files

    • TWeaK
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      710 months ago

      I’ve opened 4GB files with notepad++ before. Sure, it takes several minutes (I basically have to go away and do something else, or leave it loading in the background) but it gets there, eventually.

    • @[email protected]
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      210 months ago

      That sounds backwards… I occasionally have to open log files of 1 gig or more, and notepad++ gets sluggish, but is usable, while notepad just hangs until I kill it…

      • @[email protected]
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        110 months ago

        Someone suggested that we might have the 32-bit version, and that that might be the problem. I have no way of checking for a few months though, since I’m on parental leave until January. Because our NP++ just says that the files are too big to be opened. Sidenote: Sometimes it can open files that are a bit bigger, and sometimes only a bit smaller… So it’s not a hard limit that is the same at all times.

        • @[email protected]
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          210 months ago

          It’s a portable app and runs in use space. So no install. I’m in the same boat with work. Open source apps are great for just running an app.

          • @[email protected]
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            110 months ago

            Then it will depend on if we are allowed to download it at all. Can’t be sure about that.