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ExifTool => Bug Reports / Feature Requests => Topic started by: billscully@me.com on March 05, 2014, 02:20:45 PM

Title: Systems Out of Memory Exception
Post by: billscully@me.com on March 05, 2014, 02:20:45 PM
I am receiving System Out Of Memory Exceptions when using the Windows .EXE EXIF to extract metadata.  Is there a way to increase the memory that EXIF will use.  I know I have ample computer memory (32GB) and my performance monitor shows I never exceed 25% useage; the problem seems to be in EXIF. 

Thank you,

Bill
Title: Re: Systems Out of Memory Exception
Post by: Phil Harvey on March 06, 2014, 05:17:19 AM
Hi Bill,

The memory limitation is a known problem (https://exiftool.org/index.html#problems) in Windows.  However, the memory limit is usually sufficient to cover all files except some odd PostScript files.  I don't know any way to increase the memory allocation for the application in Windows.

- Phil
Title: Re: Systems Out of Memory Exception
Post by: billscully@me.com on March 06, 2014, 09:31:11 AM
Thanks for the quick response.  In my case, the file is an Adobe Premiere project file.  I read the project file to obtain information about media files used in the project.  I use the C# wrapper to interface to the .exe module.  I will look for a wrapper that can utilize the Perl code directly.

Bill