id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component version severity resolution keywords cc 6353 gdaladdo suggests BIGTIFF instead of BIGTIFF_OVERVIEW when crashing due to size kthujvu warmerdam "I just spent some hours waiting again and again for gdaladdo to crash with ""ERROR 1: TIFFAppendToStrip:Maximum TIFF file size exceeded. Use BIGTIFF=YES creation option."" where my attempts to create pyramids failed due to size. My commandline was ""gdaladdo -ro --config INTERLEAVE_OVERVIEW PIXEL --config COMPRESS_OVERVIEW JPEG somefile.vrt 2 4 8 16"" First I did as it said and added ""--config BIGTIFF YES"". That still crashed. I then read http://www.gdal.org/gdaladdo.html and as it suggested I then used ""--config BIGTIFF_OVERVIEW YES"" instead. Crashed again. I had to have BOTH ""--config BIGTIFF YES"" AND ""--config BIGTIFF_OVERVIEW YES"" for it to work. Please make sure the suggestion in the crash is correct and maybe add a note to the documentation! I am also confused why the documentation says ""The default value is IF_NEEDED."" but I still had to explicitly enable it. :) Using GDAL 2.0.1, released 2015/09/15 on Archlinux." defect closed normal 2.1.0 default 2.0.1 normal fixed