What is the downside of enabling LargeFileSupport?

[cgnm91]

Dear all,

first of all: many thanks for your amazing work with ExifTool bringing the joy of proper metadata to everyone dealing with digital images 

I am using Immich (https://immich.app) which uses ExifTool as well. I filed a bug because Immich does not set the LargeFileSupport flag when executing ExifTool. The question arose, which considerations have to be taken into account when setting the flag. Can anyone help answering that question?

Many thanks and best wishes from Germany
Max

[wywh]

I use LargeFileSupport whenever dealing with movies (or with images in the mix). No harm always using it except the command is then slightly longer.

- Matti

[Phil Harvey]

Enabling LargeFileSupport on older systems may cause a runtime error.  But those older systems are not very common nowadays.

- Phil

[cgnm91]

Awesome!! Thank you so much for your quick replies

- Max

[StarGeek]

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