Notepad++ can’t handle as big files for some reason. At work we have files that can reach 5-600 MB, and NP++ can’t always open those, but notepad handles then with no problem.
It’s a portable app and runs in use space. So no install. I’m in the same boat with work. Open source apps are great for just running an app.
I had the same problem but noticed that I was using the 32 bit version of notepad++, installed the 64 bits instead and had no problems with large files
Tbf npp has much more functionality than regular notepad.
Just the syntax highlighting alone probably dramatically lowers the amount of text it can render.
There’s a npp plugin called Big Files, I haven’t used it but it might be worth a look.
ref. https://github.com/superolmo/BigFiles
also
https://github.com/molsonkiko/HugeFiles
also interesting on this topic
https://www.howtogeek.com/869782/notepad-can-handle-your-huge-text-files-again/
With bigger files or searching in files where there’s a lot of data I found sublimetext to be much more efficient (than n++)
I’ve opened 4GB files with notepad++ before. Sure, it takes several minutes (I basically have to go away and do something else, or leave it loading in the background) but it gets there, eventually.
That sounds backwards… I occasionally have to open log files of 1 gig or more, and notepad++ gets sluggish, but is usable, while notepad just hangs until I kill it…
Someone suggested that we might have the 32-bit version, and that that might be the problem. I have no way of checking for a few months though, since I’m on parental leave until January. Because our NP++ just says that the files are too big to be opened. Sidenote: Sometimes it can open files that are a bit bigger, and sometimes only a bit smaller… So it’s not a hard limit that is the same at all times.
