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I use command line MagicCMD.exe to convert a multitiff file to several singletiff files.

During conversion, some temporary files have created and their files size are extremely LARGE !!!! My original tiff file is ~3000kb, but a tempory file is over 136Mb. How can I minimize the temporary file size when using command line?

What is MagicCMD.exe? Is it part of Image Magick?

Yes. It is a part of Imagemagick. MagickCMD can be used with other options in CMD.

Is your tiff file compressed? IM may have to decompress it to process it.

By the way, it would be a good idea to provide your IM version, your command line and a link to your input tiff image, so others can review the image and your code and try it themselves.

I do not know much about memory management, but see

http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/files/#massive
http://www.imagemagick.org/script/resou ... nvironment