Maximum file size in PyCharm

Question

I'm using PyCharm community edition 2016, and I notice that I can't open large data input files or logs (20MB). The editor simply says "File XXX is to large (SIZE)".

And not only that, but there seems to be no way of changing the limit. The official documentation mentions a way to increase the maximum size for using intellisense, but not for the maximum size of files that can be opened at all. Can that be true? Is this really an IDE that cannot open large logs in any way at all?

Answer 1

For Pycharm 2018, you can go Help-> edit custom properties

then add this line

idea.max.content.load.filesize=25000

And then restart pycharm.