Previous attempts to edit the file have failed. I'm now using UltraEdit wich is a disk based editor. It's allowing me to edit and save this large file. It looks like there was some kind of nasty character. Removing the offending record seems to have solved this.

I'm still curious what the cause was. The file would read right into the middle of word. There is nothing noticeably different about the text, yet deleting the record did the trick. Maybe some encoding glitch in the file?

Thanks,

Jim



On Dec 1, 2012, at 11:48 PM, Beatrix Willius wrote:

> Try to make the file smaller by splitting it into parts less than a GB or so. If you have a more manageable file size you can then
> 
> - adjust the records
> - try to find out if the file size was the problem or if you have some special character that causes FM to puke.
> 
> You can also try to import the file into Excel.
> 
> On 02.12.2012, at 04:14, James Babb <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> I'm trying to import a 5.17GB comma delimited text file. (FMP 9 or FMP 11, OSX 10.6.8)
>> 
>> It seems to just stop about 10% of the way in, at the same place, every time. Is there some system file size limit that I'm hitting? Oddly, Textspresso also stops reading the file at the same place.
>> 
>> I can open the file with TextEdit, where I can see all of the text. Unfortunately, TextEdit chokes when I try to save the file. Everything else I have chokes.
>> 
>> Any suggestions?
>> 
>> Thanks in advance.
>> 
>> Jim Babb
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