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Operating with big files with LW-7 32bit for OSX

Hello everybody,

Is it safe to do simple filesystem operations with files of big size
(10s of gigabytes) in LW 7 32bit for OSX?

The operations are the following: copy-file, rename-file and probably open and read
few kilobytes from the beginning of the file.

Right now I was able to copy 5.5gb file using copy-file and it looks ok; but just to be
on a safe side without upgrading (400euro + VAT is a lot to upgrade from
Hobbyist DV32bit to Hobbyist DV 64bit)


--
Br,
/Alexey

Re: Operating with big files with LW-7 32bit for OSX

You should be fine performing those operations on large files. I haven't run into any issues except where I foolishly slurped a file into an array and exceeded the maximum array size.

On 15 Mar 2016 20:36, "Alexey Veretennikov" <txm.fourier@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello everybody,

Is it safe to do simple filesystem operations with files of big size
(10s of gigabytes) in LW 7 32bit for OSX?

The operations are the following: copy-file, rename-file and probably open and read
few kilobytes from the beginning of the file.

Right now I was able to copy 5.5gb file using copy-file and it looks ok; but just to be
on a safe side without upgrading (400euro + VAT is a lot to upgrade from
Hobbyist DV32bit to Hobbyist DV 64bit)


--
Br,
/Alexey
Updated at: 2020-12-10 08:32 UTC