Re: big files - saving and closing unmodified files takes forever

2016-03-09 Thread 'armin' via BBEdit Talk
Hi Kerri, I must have been blind when I searched the manual ... Probably used the wrong keywords for searching. Thank you so much for your help. This will make things easier. I will ask support, why it takes eternity to close a touched file without wanting to save. Greetings from cold and wet

Re: big files - saving and closing unmodified files takes forever

2016-03-09 Thread Kerri Hicks
glegroups.com> wrote: > I often have to inspect/edit really big files (e.g. IC-Layout data) which > reside on volumes mounted as smbfs. > When I save/close the file (even if I choose "don't save") I see the > rainbow pizza forever making it impossible to work on. > All I

big files - saving and closing unmodified files takes forever

2016-03-09 Thread 'armin' via BBEdit Talk
I often have to inspect/edit really big files (e.g. IC-Layout data) which reside on volumes mounted as smbfs. When I save/close the file (even if I choose "don't save") I see the rainbow pizza forever making it impossible to work on. All I can do, is force quit BBEdit. But when I resta

Re: Big files

2009-10-08 Thread David Kelly
On Oct 7, 2009, at 4:13 PM, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: At 08:24 -0400 on 10/07/2009, Kerri Hicks wrote about Re: Big files: To split it, go to the command line, and type split -b384m filename.sql Is split smart enough to split on a line basis (so that the content of a line is preserved

Big files

2009-10-07 Thread rdp
Hi all, I just tried to open a 768MB sql dump file and bbedit gives me a error message -116 (Size Check failed). Size shouldn't be a problem nowadays with Snow Leopard and more than 4 GB of RAM... Does somebody else have similar problems or is it only me ? Thanks rdp

Re: Big files

2009-10-07 Thread Kerri Hicks
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 3:25 AM, rdp rdepellegr...@gmail.com wrote: I just tried to open a 768MB sql dump file and bbedit gives me a error message -116 (Size Check failed). Size shouldn't be a problem nowadays with Snow Leopard and more than 4 GB of RAM... Does somebody else have similar

Re: Big files

2009-10-07 Thread rdp
I thought the FAQ entry was for OS 10.1 ;-). Unbelievable that such OS limits are still in place in 2009. Back to vi! Seems like the BSD command line tools are not restricted by this limits and according to activity monitor it loads the whole file into RAM. Thank you all. rdp On Oct 7, 3:19 

Re: Big files

2009-10-07 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 08:24 -0400 on 10/07/2009, Kerri Hicks wrote about Re: Big files: To split it, go to the command line, and type split -b384m filename.sql Is split smart enough to split on a line basis (so that the content of a line is preserved in one file as opposed to being part in one file

Re: Big files

2009-10-07 Thread Patrick Proniewski
On 07 oct. 2009, at 23:13, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: At 08:24 -0400 on 10/07/2009, Kerri Hicks wrote about Re: Big files: To split it, go to the command line, and type split -b384m filename.sql Is split smart enough to split on a line basis (so that the content of a line is preserved