• APparently Notepad++ requires a lot of memory when using large files. Perhaps you can close a few programs and try again? Alternatively, you could try finding and downloading other tools that are created to read large files. In a quick search, I saw UltraEdit pop up a few times, but there are lots of similar tools available.

    However, I will repeat my suggestion to contact whoever sent you that file and work with them on the issue. That is much more likely to resolve the issues then continuing the conversation here.


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