That one worked Kurt. I tried opening in Word, and exceeded the maximum pages (32,766 if anyone was interested). pfe32 opened the file in seconds. Unfortunately, there's no useful information in it, so I'm off to call the tech again, and rip him a new one...
Joe Heaton -----Original Message----- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 12:26 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Big log file I've been using pfe32.exe for years - it is free, but not open source, and is no longer maintained. I'm sure there are better ones out there, but I have used it to open files as large as 1gb with relative ease - haven't tried anything larger, really. On Feb 5, 2008 12:01 PM, Joe Heaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Anyone have any useful ideas on how to open a 250MB log file? I tried > opening it in Wordpad, but it gets stuck around 75%. It's a file > level log of a backup job, which normally backs up around 420,000 > files. There's a discrepancy on the summary report, of about 20 > files, between what it says it looks at, filters out, and actually > backs up. The company has no idea what those 20 files could be, and > they're probably no big deal, but I want to know what the backup isn't backing up... > > Joe Heaton > AISA > Employment Training Panel > 1100 J Street, 4th Floor > Sacramento, CA 95814 > (916) 327-5276 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
