Quick Select Tool not working properly

Hi Guys
I have a large photo merge image and wanted to content aware fill the missing bits. When i try to use the select tool it selects while i hold my mouse button down but as soon as i let go it seems to either disappear or jump to somewhere totally different. This only happens in the checkered part with no image, i can select things fine within the image itself.
My guess is that it won't work because the image is too large?? 48k x 5k
Thought i might just try the Spot Healing Brush instead, didn't seem to handle things too well.
Just to add to this, nothing to do with the size of the image as i can't select on a much small image either. Basically i can only select the actaully photo rather than the checkered part around the outside when i want to content fill.

After you ctrl click on the layer to load the layers transparency:
(click on the below screenshots for larger views)
Select>Inverse
Select>Modify>Expand and use a value of about 10 pixels
(varies depending on how big your pano is)
then Edit>Fill>Content Aware
You still might have to touch up some areas as the one above still needs.

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