diff --git a/.config/nvim/lua/plugins/extras/util/bigfile.lua b/.config/nvim/lua/plugins/extras/util/bigfile.lua
index c7c101f4..ea10d989 100644
--- a/.config/nvim/lua/plugins/extras/util/bigfile.lua
+++ b/.config/nvim/lua/plugins/extras/util/bigfile.lua
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 return {
   "LunarVim/bigfile.nvim",
-  event = "LazyFile",
+  event = { "BufReadPre", "BufNewFile" },
   opts = {
     filesize = 1, -- size of the file in MiB, the plugin round file sizes to the closest MiB
   },