The current image system is difficult to deal with, particularly if you're trying to develop a larger site. Part of the problem is the flat file structure, making it almost impossible to add images that have been uploaded to the site since it requires a linear search through all the files. I tried to work around this by using ftp to copy the images and then using the import feature to add the products more efficiently, but this didn't work. I assume I could probably do this with the images that have been uploaded using the bulk media command, but the combination of the import bug and the long unique ids appended to the file names make this onerous.

So, the bottom line is that I'd like to have better image management both for adding images individually to products, categories and attributes and better bulk image handling to more easily add groups of products with images.

The bulk media options means its quite easy to upload say 100 images and then applying them per product.

You can also (when the CSV is fixed again tomorrow) just name them all there and then upload them into the product folder using ftp and its all done.

So as it is i am not quite sure how we can keep it logical but not kinda of "flat" as we need images to be accessable from multiple products / levels.