Brackets freezes on startup with large files

[PabloK]

When having accidently opened a large or unopenable file brackets may become hard to open as it will continue to preload these files upon opening.

Expected behaviour files that take to long to open or are not openable ahould not be preloaded.

[peterflynn]

@PabloK How large is the file? Is it a JS file, or something else? Is it minified?

If it's possible, can you post the file online somewhere so we can take a look at it?

Also, can you check to make sure this still happens even if you use Debug > Reload Without Extensions? (if you have any extensions installed)

[PabloK]

I cant send the file but I can tell you its size to morrow. It is a very large text file though. Probably a few hundred megabytes. The problem in my oppinion is brackets loads it so slow and during loaf I cant give indtructions not to load it. Eventually it will load. So the issue is that there is no effective way to remove it from auto load. Since it is in the opened files list. Do you need more info?

[peterflynn]

Is it plain text -- is the file extension .txt? Can you tell me more specifically how many MB it is?

Also, do you have any extensions installed? If so, does this still happen when they're all disabled? (see https://github.com/adobe/brackets/wiki/Troubleshooting#wiki-disable-all-extensions for details)

[peterflynn]

@PabloK Any updates? I posted some questions above...

[PabloK]

I will try to see if the extension I have effects this but it is only theme related so Imagine it should not. I cant sed the file as it is workrelated. The file is a few hundred mb. What im requeating is simply a feature that stops preloading of previously opened files if they are taking a certain amount of time. Perhaps confifurable? Is this a feature you are planning to integrate?

[PabloK]

I have disabled all plugins and also I think I have upgraded brackets to the latest version and when opening a large file I currently get the following error.

[PabloK]

This file is a 2.2GB text file

[njx]

Reviewed. For 1.0, let's pick a size limit and just refuse to read the file (and show a more specific error message) if we know that the file is too large when we stat it (before we even read it). We could even do this at the filesystem level and just return a specific "file too large" error before reading it.