Normally The Panorama Factory frees the memory occupied by an image
when it is no longer needed. For example, The Panorama Factory frees the
memory occupied by the stitched image after cropping it. It frees the
memory occupied by the cropped image after resizing or sharpening it. And
so on.
The problem I have identified occurs when these two conditions are both
met:
1. You are using the Wizard.
AND
2. You save the project BEFORE pressing the Next button on Wizard step
5.
Under these conditions, The Panorama Factory does not free the memory
occupied by the stitched image, the cropped image, etc. when no longer
needed. This means you may receive the out of memory error even though
there should be enough memory to complete the operation.
To avoid this problem, do not save the project until after pressing the
Next button on Wizard step 5. If you are worried about crashing, The
Panorama Factory's autosave/recovery feature should allow you to recover
after crashes.
You should always run with autosave/recovery enabled. Disabling it may
actually hurt the program's performance. Although this may seem
counterintuitive, it is the ability to write image files to the autosave
location that permits The Panorama Factory to remove unused images from
memory.
