Bug 458712

Summary: A hex editor with a 2Gb file limit is useless
Product: [Applications] okteta Reporter: Henry Pfeil <hpfeil>
Component: generalAssignee: Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <kossebau>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: wishlist    
Priority: NOR    
Version: 0.26.9   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description Henry Pfeil 2022-09-04 20:26:59 UTC 
SUMMARY
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Support for files greater than 2 Gb has not yet been implemented?!
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Terrabyte storage devices have been around for quite some time. Files greater than 2 Gb are now quite common, unlike years ago when a 2 Gb limit might have seemed like a smart idea. In 2022 this limit is an impediment to productivity. I hunted down and installed GHex, which is not impaired by a design flaw. I imagine your target audience is those running 32-bit machines. If so, why not a 64-bit version for those in this century?

OBSERVED RESULT
Fails to open a 32 Gb file.

EXPECTED RESULT
A useful tool would open a 32 Gb file. Sadly, okteta is not a useful tool.

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Comment 1 Friedrich W. H. Kossebau 2022-09-04 21:16:58 UTC 
Hi Henry Pfeil,  I am sorry Okteta does not serve your personal needs, and you only found out after trying it that it does not meet your criteria for what is "useful".
Yet, for those who just need to peek and twist small-sized files even on 64-bit address systems (like myself) it works good enough.
And yes, I would have liked to have time to implement support for endlessly sized data since the very start two decades ago (should be documented in code even), but always had too many other interesting things to do in life (the answer to: " why not a 64-bit version"). No reason though to no longer share the fruits of my former work with others under the GPL, which explicitly states that such licensed program is provided
> "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING,
> BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS
> FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE

Would it have helped you if the description of the program (as done in the app metadata) would explicitly hint that there is a limit in supported file sizes?  Might consider adding that there, to save people time and frustrations (but only when people actually read that and not just go ahead based on their assumptions :) ).

For your needs, you might consider also giving wxhexeditor or ImHex a try (not tested myself).

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 182577 ***