Duplication of images

Hi All,
Can anybody suggest how could we stop duplication of images in image table.
When i am importing the images using Image Manager or by data manager the same image (With the same name) it is getting duplicated in the repository. I tried to edit the image table from Console to make it unique but the image table is not at all editale.
Please suggest!
Thanks,
Tony

Tony,
Are so saying that doing a single import of an image is actually duplicating it in the Image table? Or, just that it is allowing you to import the same image more than once? I don't think there is anything that will stop you from importing the same image over and over again. When an image is imported it is given a sequential "image id" within MDM that it uses as a reference, so it will allow you to load in multiple images of the same image name, it just assigns them different "image id's" which it uses internally. The only way I can suggest off the top of my head is that you have to manually track what has already been loaded.
If you happen to end up with two identical images that have both been linked to different objects you have the option to "merge" them together in the Image table which will maintain all the links.
Thanks,
Tim

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Instead of instinctively condescending like a grouch, you could have simply replied with the right answer and made me look bad, instead you only made yourself look bad Terence The Devil.
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