A problem opening my file with notepad

A problem opening my file with notepad

Hi Mark_fassy,

This may help to your problem. I recommend you to convert your notepad file into MS Word file. These are the steps to follow.

1. Open Microsoft Word. This is done in different ways depending on the operating system and user preference. The most common method for opening Microsoft Word is to click "start" or the Windows orb in the lower left corner of the computer screen, click "Programs" or "All Programs," hover the mouse pointer over "Microsoft Office," and click on the icon for Microsoft Word, which will be different depending on which version of the program is installed on the computer.

2. Open the .txt file to be converted in Microsoft Word. Click "File" or the Microsoft Office orb in the upper left of the screen, then click "open." From here, it is necessary to navigate through the computer's file system to find where the desired .txt file is located. Once it has been found, click on the file once, then click "open" at the bottom right of the dialog box.

3. Click "File" in the upper left of the screen again, then click "Save As." In Windows 2007, click the Microsoft Office orb in the upper left corner, then hover the mouse over "save as" and select either "Word document" or "Word 97-2003 document" in the right column of the menu. The "Word document" option will save the file as a .docx file, which can only be viewed in Word 2007 or an earlier version that has been updated with a Compatibility Pack from Microsoft. The "Word 97-2003 document" option will save the file as a .doc file, which can be opened in virtually all versions of Microsoft Word.

4. Select the location on the computer where the file is to be saved. Save it to the computer's desktop if desired to make the new file easy to locate. Name the file by typing a desired file name in the "file name" box, then click "Save" in the lower right of the dialog box. The Notepad, or .txt file, is now changed to a Word document.

A problem opening my file with notepad

I guess that problem is not caused by Notepad++ not supporting big file sizes. The problem is probably caused by the amount of free memory you have. This problem was already reported to the Notepad++ community page and the user had a problem opening a text file with a 350 MB file size.

He was curious about the actual supported file size because he was able to open a text file with 317 MB file size but not with 350 MB.

But it is not possible to say that Notepad++ already hit the ceiling on the 350 MB file size because one user said that she was able to open a text file that is around 423 MB which is a lot bigger than the first file. It seems the other user also encountered the problem with the file size limit.

She solved the problem by closing other programs and tried opening the text file again and it worked. So, in your case, if you have a limited physical RAM and you need to open that kind of size on Notepad++, I guess you should terminate other running applications that are not important so you can free up some memory.