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Posted: **Wed Oct 15, 2003 1:36 pm**

When I search multiple files for a text string I am receiving the following verbatim error message:
Not enough memory for that operation.

I have 1 GIG of RAM. I think I have enough.
I rebooted incase something was going on in my system

I was trying to search only 18 text files (relatively small) from about 10k to 50k in size.

I am running Windows XP SP1

I downloaded and installed the latest TextPad version 4.7.1

This feature is extremely important to me and one of the reasons I sought out enhanced text editor.

Any help would be appreciated.

Posted: **Wed Oct 15, 2003 2:16 pm**

How large is the text you are searching on? If you're using a regular expression, I believe if it's malformed you can get that error message mighty quick.

Posted: **Wed Oct 15, 2003 2:18 pm**

I am searching through 18 text files the largest is 400k. Most are in the 1K range. The text I was searching for is "pipe".

That should be able to be done I would think

Posted: **Wed Oct 15, 2003 2:44 pm**

Using search I found:

http://textpad.com/forum/viewtopic.php? ... +operation

http://textpad.com/forum/viewtopic.php? ... +operation

Posted: **Wed Oct 15, 2003 7:32 pm**

Just for quick info, the links provided in the previous message by s_reynisson discuss problems with Unicode as possible causes of the memory error message.

Thanks for those links s_reynisson

Posted: **Wed Oct 15, 2003 11:21 pm**

The files are just generic text files and should not exhibit any issues that I would be aware of. I will test on a different folder to see if I get the same results.

Thanks for the help so far.

Posted: **Thu Oct 16, 2003 12:47 pm**

The different folder worked fine.. .must have been some corruption or something in one of the files.

Thanks again for your suggestions.