Small clipboard operations are performed using the Windows Clipboard, this means that the data cut/copied will be available to other applications.

If the selection being added to the clipboard exceeds 512 KB (Configurable in the options), then the operation is performed internally.

Internal operations have a number of advantages and disadvantages.

• They take up a very small amount of space as only information describing the data to copy is ever stored i.e. 'copy characters 100-2000000'.
• Operations are very fast regardless of the size of the data being copied.
• Large selections that are copied to the clipboard can not be used in other applications (this includes other instances of the Large File Editor).

If you copy a large quantity of data onto the clipboard and try to use it in another application then following text will appear when pasted [LARGE DATA BLOCK 11.24 GB] Due to the size of this block it can not be used by other applications. Large data blocks can only be used within the large file editor that created them (This has occurred as you have placed a block of data onto the clipboard that exceeds the limit of 5 MB set in the options).