edit extra large text file

[Dung Ly]

To whom who may concern with:
I need to open a very huge text file using textpad. I got messsage displayed when I tried to open that file: <<Disk full while accessing file C:\bigfile.txt>>
How do I take care this problem?
Thank you for help.
D.L.

[Andreas]

Provide enough disk space (when textpad loads a big file, the pagefile.sys might expand to get the file into virtual memory)

[Alex Angelopoulos]

I do have some regular hangs with TextPad when opening sizable files (~1 MB or more, or several thousand lines).

Since I have 320 MB RAM and an 800 MB partition devoted to swapping, I don't think that's the issue. I *am* running Windows XP, though, and there could be some sort of application throttling the OS is doing...

[Roy Beatty]

I have opened 300mb files with TextPad. You can do it if you're patient (and have the paging filespace).

Actually I realized that I didn't need to *edit* such files, so I found a shareware tool to view them. Since the tool is in so different an application niche, I hope I do not offend our kindly hosts by mentioning the url: http://www.fileviewer.com With this application, simply called "V", I have opened 15GB files and navigated to the end in less than two seconds -- over a network. V navigates file "chunks" and does NOT automatically provide a record count.

Like I said, that's not what TextPad's about. I use V maybe once a month. I use TextPad a dozen times a day.

HTH,

Roy

[jeff]

FWIW,
under Win98 2nd edition, 256Mb RAM...

I regularly edit 8Mb -- 20Mb files using TextPad. It handles them easily.
Amazingly (to me), TextPad has handled 100Mb+ webserver logfiles ~~
performing any search and replace I've thrown at it.

Closest I've ever come to "hanging" TextPad was asking it to "sort" (using columns 20 to 40, and delete duplicate lines) a 15Mb logfile...
...took about 15-20 minutes (and SEEMED like it wasn't responding)
but I came back from coffee break ~~ and there was the sorted file
waiting for me.

[Rhett]

I have a 225MB file I get an error opening it. Do I use swapping? How do I set swapping?

Thanks