Re: Problem opening a TIFF stack > 2GB

Posted by Wayne Rasband on Jun 18, 2009; 5:00pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Problem-opening-a-TIFF-stack-2GB-tp3692079p3692080.html

On Jun 18, 2009, at 12:12 AM, aweitz wrote:

> I have a ~3GB 16-bit TIFF file that I'm trying to open as a stack.  
> I'm using
> Vista x64, and I have 4 GB of RAM.  My max memory for ImageJ is set to
> 3500
> MB.  I'm using version 1.42q.
>
> My image has 6000 slices, but only the first 4260 slices are loaded.  
> It
> turns out that these 4260 stacks constitute 2GB of image data.  (I
> know this
> because the title about the loaded image stack says "2GB".)  For some
> reason, all the slices after #4260 are being ignored.
>
> I have also tried loading the image as a TIFF Virtual Stack, but I run
> into
> the same problem.
>
> Does anyone know why this is happening?  Thanks!!!

This bug is fixed in the v1.43a daily build.

-wayne