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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Related to my previous question today, what is the nature of “TIFFFetchDirectory:Sanity check on directory count failed” error?
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">:: gdal_translate   -co compress=zstd   -co predictor=yes   -co level=17   -co bigtiff=yes   -of cog   -a_nodata 0 Finlayson9488_SP7_08Aug2017_150cm.rgb-nir.vrt
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Input file size is 41114, 22580<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">0...10...20ERROR 1: TIFFFetchDirectory:Sanity check on directory count failed, this is probably not a valid IFD offset<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">ERROR 1: TIFFReadDirectory:Failed to read directory at offset 16879620<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The translate run finished successfully and `gdalinfo -mm …` reports no errors on the output file structure. Visually the image appears intact. (Is scanning for minmax the best
 way to test for a valid file? I’ve been using it that way for years but maybe it’s not best practice.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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