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How to open a big file in Notepad++?
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I tried opening a file of 800MB size in Notepad++. But i don't why Notepad++ showed only 269117242 chars 271450112 bytes . Neither it showed any alert message that it is unable to open such a big file. Then i used wordpad to open the same file, it worked like charm. But why Notepad++ can't open 800…
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Notepad++ doesn't support huge files, according to this wiki documentation, the problem persists if the component (Scintilla) remains as the core of Notepad++ : Older versions of Notepad++ may crash while opening very large files. Newer versions (5.…
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