Open 2.5 gb text file

Want to open a very large text file several Gigabytes or more on Windows PCs? Then you need to use third-party programs to do so. Our list points to several viewers and editors that you may use; all free of course.

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Create your own SDelete shortcut for secure file deletion. Comments seeprime said on February 22, at pm. Tom Hawack said on February 22, at pm. I learn everyday here on your blog. BM said on February 22, at pm. Martin Brinkmann said on February 22, at pm. Paul's Dad. The 2GB limit might be due to 32bit limitations? Kamil said on February 22, at pm. I use this for php and server conf file editing often. Zak Zebrowski said on February 22, at pm.

Justin MacIver said on February 22, at pm. Rofert said on February 22, at pm. I use Total Commander. It has a built in viewer. Indenim said on February 22, at pm. Bob said on February 22, at pm.

Pablo said on February 22, at pm. Bob said on February 23, at am. Nice, please let me know if you happen to have a link to it. All I could find were links to forum posts. Zoops said on February 23, at am. Martin Brinkmann said on February 23, at am. Thanks for the link, how large were the files?

Ivan said on February 23, at am. Glogg for huge files. Stefan said on February 23, at pm. Paquet said on February 25, at am. I use WnBrowse to view large files. Works beautifully. Pedro said on March 4, at pm.

Tom Hawack said on March 4, at pm. Lakehache said on April 27, at pm. James R. You can also make regex searches and export the results. Justin said on October 27, at am. William said on January 24, at pm. Great stuff, I tried the last one you recommended Universal editor, opened up a 11GB file easy. Nicos said on March 25, at am. MarioCP said on May 7, at pm. JustARoamer said on August 26, at pm. Klaus Hartwig said on September 23, at pm.

Anonymous said on December 12, at am. I used EmEditor today for 6. Krystian said on May 2, at am. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Comment Check the box to consent to your data being stored in line with the guidelines set out in our privacy policy We love comments and welcome thoughtful and civilized discussion. Notwithstanding that Glogg is a reader rather than an editor, the OP asks to read large text files.

I managed to run Glogg without rights to install programs on my Windows laptop as follows: download the Windows installer exe and instead of executing the installer exe, extract it with e. Inside the extracted root folder, run glogg.

I have tried it. It is really fast. Show 14 more comments. Kiki Mango Kiki Mango 1, 2 2 gold badges 7 7 silver badges 2 2 bronze badges. I just used WordPad to open a 1.

Not true - it choked on 52GB text file. Keep in mind how much memory your machine has. A smart program will not load the entire thing into memory at once. Show 13 more comments. Community Bot 1 1 1 silver badge.

HJSplit works for me. According to wiki sourceforge documentation: "Newer versions 5. Why is that? There are necessary trade offs. Add a comment. Mofi UltraEdit can edit files of any size independent on size of installed RAM.

For efficient editing large files with UE some configurations should be changed from default as explained in power tip: Large file text editor. Today I tried it with a 7. It worked fine, but only after changing the configuration, "Open file without temp file I've tested a trial version of EmEditor at home now, and I'm so impressed I'm going to trial it at work too in Feb.

And then buy it. But then I have more needs like encoding changes, and to do serious editing. Mine are data files not log files. Upvoted for EmEditor - we use it all the time and it's well worth it! It opens files that are many gigs in size. I was manipulating files with 50 GB with Editor :- It's commercial now, but it has a trial version. Peter Mortensen Lukas Liesis Lukas Liesis It is not free though.

Haven't chance using it lately. Yeah, this is the best :- — Abu Shoeb. Open, FileAccess. Read buffer, 0, buffer. Alex 1, 1 1 gold badge 12 12 silver badges 22 22 bronze badges. Large Text File Viewer couldn't open my 2. Pandiyan Cool Pandiyan Cool 6, 5 5 gold badges 50 50 silver badges 82 82 bronze badges. Krishna Sarma Krishna Sarma 1, 2 2 gold badges 27 27 silver badges 49 49 bronze badges. Joel Joel 6 6 silver badges 17 17 bronze badges. I wasn't able to open a 2. I ended up using command line type filename more to load the content I needed.

I wasnt able to open mb file neither. Geany closed while trying to open a 3. The Overflow Blog. Podcast Making Agile work for data science. Stack Gives Back Featured on Meta.