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Error disk full while accessing file
Posted: Fri May 10, 2013 9:05 pm
by cfra
I am trying to open a very large file 1.42GB which is a log file. It comes up with the above error but I am not sure why or how to fix it. I have over 842 GB free on C:drive and 754Gb on D;Drive. Any ideas that might help me here. Is there a file size limit in Textpad 7.0.0?
Posted: Sat May 11, 2013 8:45 am
by bbadmin
That error is produced when there is insufficient contiguous space in virtual memory to contain the file. This is typically caused by fragmentation of the VM paging file. The theoretical limit for the maximum size of file that TextPad can edit is 2GB, but for performance reasons it must be able to allocate that space in a contiguous fragment of VM. This may help:
How to Defragment the paging file.
Note that even if your paging file is in a single fragment, the contiguous space available within it gets fragmented as each process that is running is allocated space from it.