I could be mistaken, but I run into the same thing you do all the time and I thought I always switch to wordpad when they are big. We’ve changed our log files to automatically open in notepad instead of wordpad, so I don’t know if the more recent versions of wordpad still have the same limit. This wasn’t meant to be a comparison between wordpad and notepad, I was just giving details on how I knew wordpad had a limit because I have run into it many times. Notepad may be text only, but it doesn’t have the same limit. So I know from personal experience that the older versions of wordpad definitely have a file size limit. Sometimes these log files can get to be rather huge, and then wordpad won’t open them any more and we’d get a message asking to open them in notepad instead, which we did (the log files are just plain text). ![]() I work at a company that makes industrial control systems, and events on the system are logged to a log file which used to normally open in wordpad. Windows 7 has a new version of Wordpad, I don’t know if the limits have changed. ![]() Are you sure you don’t have this backwards? Notepad is a plain text editor while Wordpad allows markup and such.
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