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I'm trying to create a movie database from the dataset by IMDb (https://www.imdb.com/interfaces/) but I cant find a program that can open the very large file.

I've tried notepad, notepad++, VS Code and Excel. Only Excel can open the file but it does not show the complete dataset, only the first few thousand entries.

Does anyone know a program that can open large tsv files like this?

Thanks in advance.

Cameron Cheung
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  • I think you ought to find a suitable editor in https://stackoverflow.com/questions/159521/text-editor-to-open-big-giant-huge-large-text-files – Megarobo Oct 15 '20 at 18:50

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EmEditor can open very large CSV files. If tab-separated, click Tab in the CSV/Sort toolbar after you open the file.

EmEditor - TSV

Yutaka
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I think your question is probably already answered in Text editor to open big (giant, huge, large) text files

Still, I have no trouble opening files of a couple GB using VS Code or Atom. Not sure what is preventing those from working for you. Regardless of that, editors specifically suited for what you are trying to do can be found in the question I linked above.

Megarobo
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