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Thank you, Felipe. I tried your suggestion, but it does not work for me, with a 1.9 GB text file. I renamed the file extension to "txt", but I still get the "Disk Full" message, and the file does not load. Do you understand why the "fix" works for you? Is there anything...

Quoting, and replying a smidgeon: Did a small test with a 1.1gb file and it looks like TP uses the same amount of memory for write and read only access (peaks at 1,7gb on my 1gb system), but you could try that, ie. right click on the file in explorer and set the read only attribute. That was somethi...

Thank you very much for those suggestions. Yes, I have plenty of hd space remaining: about 60 GB is free, on the 80 GB, single drive, system. Swap file is on C:\ since it's my only drive and only partition. The file(s) of interest are plain ASCII files of millions of 80-column lines. On each line is...

Thank you, Stephen. Kind of you to recommend PageDefrag. I downloaded and installed it, and used it according to your suggestions, and those in the author's (Mark Russinovich) notes. It is a nice product! And free of charge. With reference to the Disk full error. This is dependent on the amount cont...

I sometimes find it convenient to use TextPad to read or browse certain large ASCII text files in my work. Lately, the size of one of the huge files I regularly consult has grown a bit, and I find that TextPad will no longer open it. The attempt to open the file ends with the message box, "Disk...