{"id":242363,"date":"2026-08-07T13:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T18:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/large-file-support"},"modified":"2026-08-07T13:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T18:05:09","slug":"large-file-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/large-file-support","title":{"rendered":"Large File Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/large-file-support.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>19 years ago I bought version 6 of some software. I just started using it again after not using it for 17 years or so and it is at version 26 and my old registration is still valid so I still have the pro version! They don\u2019t even sell this software anymore, they just rent it but they are honoring my old purchase!<\/p>\n<p>The software is EmEditor. I originally used it for UTF-8 support but this support became more common with editors. I just used it because I was working with a fairly large text file at 12.5 GB. My main editor is 32-bit and couldn\u2019t remotely handle this. I then tried Windows Notepad and Microsoft Word and they also laughed at the idea of editing such a big file.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>EmEditor is capable of opening very large files \u2014 up to 16 TB or 1,099 billion lines \u2014 with only a little memory, leaving you free to work as large or small as you please.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>19 years ago I bought version 6 of some software. I just started using it again after not using it for 17 years or so and it is at version 26 and my old registration is still valid so I still have the pro version! They don\u2019t even sell this software anymore, they just rent [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}