Here at work one of our server have created a log file of 32 Gigabytes. we need to open it in order to know what happened, But all the text editor that I tried have said that the file is too large and it doesn't open.
we have found some alternative text editor to notepad or notepad++, but even those have a limit of 5GB.
we have also tried a software which split the file in small files. Log Splitter it's called, but the issue is that we have 4GB left of space on the hard drive and for that reason the Log Splitter is not able to process the split.
Any suggestion on how to open this file?
Thank you in advance
Give BareTail a try. They specifically cite as one of its features "View files of any size (> 2GB)", so it should handle your conundrum perfectly. http://www.baremetalsoft.com/baretail/
The basic version is free and you can easily scan the file at any point, create filters to highlight events... all in a nice GUI. The Pro version ($25) offers some better search features and additional display filters.
Or you could go with a Windows port of Tail itself...
http://tailforwin32.sourceforge.net/
Either would be perfect for getting that last 100 lines, or so, of logfile that you need to see issues that just happened.