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Oh right, generated files exist. Though logging systems usually have a rollover file size you can configure, should this happen to you in real life.

Honestly I'm okay with having to resort to power tools for these edge cases. Notepad is more for the average user who is less likely to run into 100 MB text files and more likely to run into a 2 kB text file someone shared on Discord.

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> Notepad is more for the average user who is less likely to run into 100 MB text files and more likely to run into a 2 kB text file someone shared on Discord.

There's no reason it shouldn't handle both use cases.

> Though logging systems usually have a rollover file size you can configure, should this happen to you in real life

I get what you're saying. But if things were done right I probably wouldn't have to be remoting into this box to hunt for a log file that wasn't properly being shipped to some other centralized logging platform.

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