michael dunston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sez: >Should BBEdit 8.6 be able to work with large (~400 MB) files? I >tried opening a 420MB log file (using BBEdit 8.6.1 on a MBP) and >gave up after 25 minutes of the spinning cursor and the Finder's >assessment of "Application Not Responding". I'm wondering if I >should have just waited longer, and if so how long; or whether I >should be looking into other methods for this. thanks. >
Just a slight correction to Rich's post. As previously discussed here and elsewhere: ======================================================================= Because of a limitation in the OS, the largest file size BBEdit can currently read is 768M when represented as Unicode. Note the qualification; since BBEdit represents files internally as Unicode, a character takes up two bytes, so today's practical limit is 384M on disk (since that will expand to 768M when represented as Unicode). ======================================================================= or see: <http://faq.barebones.com/do_getanswer.php?record_id=36> Regards, Patrick Woolsey / Director of Technical Services == Bare Bones Software, Inc. <http://www.barebones.com> P.O. Box 1048, Bedford, MA 01730-1048 -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Have a feature request? Not sure the software's working correctly? If so, please send mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not to the list. List FAQ: <http://www.barebones.com/support/lists/bbedit_talk.shtml> List archives: <http://www.listsearch.com/BBEditTalk.lasso> To unsubscribe, send mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
