Opening up a (really) old thread here, but is there a technical reason
(other than available RAM) that BBEdit can't open files more than 900 MB in
size? (Using http://faq.barebones.com/support/bbedit/faqs.html#bigfiles as
a reference.)
My MacBook Pro has 16 GB of RAM which I imagine should be
Hello,
What is the maximum size for a file that BBEdit can open ?
I've tried to open a 700 MB text file without success:
(MacOS Error code: -116)
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Patrick Proniewski pat...@patpro.net sez:
What is the maximum size for a file that BBEdit can open ?
I've tried to open a 700 MB text file without success:
(MacOS Error code: -116)
Please see:
http://faq.barebones.com/do_getanswer.php?record_id=36
Regards,
Patrick Woolsey
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At 10:14 -0400 8/7/09, Patrick Woolsey wrote:
http://faq.barebones.com/do_getanswer.php?record_id=36
BBEdit and TextWrangler represent open documents as Unicode, which uses two
bytes for each character. Combined with an internal Mac OS X limitation, this
means that you can open files up to 384
At 10:14 -0400 8/7/09, Patrick Woolsey wrote:
http://faq.barebones.com/do_getanswer.php?record_id=36
BBEdit and TextWrangler represent open documents as Unicode, which uses
two bytes for each character. Combined with an internal Mac OS X
limitation, this means that you can open files up to 384
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 09:44:45AM -0600, Doug McNutt wrote:
In short is the limit 402,653,184 bytes of file size or 402,653,184
characters as preprocessed by BBEdit?
I know. The answer is all that is proprietary. sigh.
Create files of the types you describe and try opening them
On 07 août 2009, at 16:14, Patrick Woolsey wrote:
Please see:
http://faq.barebones.com/do_getanswer.php?record_id=36
ho. ok.
I remember about 10 years ago, being able to open a +170 MB file on my
powermac 7100, 42 MB RAM, using BBEdit. So I was so shocked not beeing
able to open a 700MB
