Offline Image Management

All of the other Digital Asset Management (DAM) software packages that I have used manage offline storage. Some have built-in capability to burn CD/DVD's; others just recognize that it has been done. However, all of them track the offline media by serial number, and allow the user to assign a more friendly name to the disk. This allows one to locate the disk containing an image. Without this, support for offline images is not particularly useful.
So far as I have been able to determine, Lightroom does not provide any capability for this. In particular, when I import images from a CD (leaving them in place), Lightroom recognizes the drive on which the CD is mounted. When I attempt to reference the images later, with the CD unmounted, Lightroom provides the standard Windows dialog box to find a missing file.
Is there some capability for Lightroom to manage offline images that I have not found? If not, has anyone looked into coordinating it with a real DAM package? I like Lightroom's workflow and raw conversion, but I need image management, too.
Thanks,
David

Thanks for that pointer. I have a PC rather than a Mac, but that may be effective on a PC, too.
However, what I'd really like Lightroom to do is integrate with iMatch. It tracks offline images, and names of mountable media (i.e., CDs and DVDs). It also scales very well, and is quite fast.
The problem I have had with iMatch is that it is not integrated into my workflow, and I tend not to enter relevant metadata for my images for relatively long periods of time. Then, of course, I have a lot to do, and it's a chore. If I were able to enter metadata - categories, keywords - in Lightroom, as I process my images, and then easily import that metadata into iMatch, I would be much happier.
I'll look around in the iMatch forum some more. Most of the discussion I saw there looked a little backwards to me - it was about moving images and metadata from iMatch to Lightroom.
David

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Is this REALLY a DAM?! Cannot locate offline images!!

The first thing I expect from a Digital Asset manager is that it can manage my Digital Assets ;-)
My Digital assets happen to be a lot of slides which I scanned in and which I keep on DVD's.
All files are just in the root of my DVD, no use sorting them in subfolders, they're just burned chronologically.
When I import my digital assets in Lightroom (keeping them in the original place), ALL my pictures on all my dvd's end up in ONE very big folder, named G:, the letter of my diskdrive.
Someone suggested: yes, but you can rename your folder after import to the volumename of your DVD (that's exactly what I would like to be the result of an import). Alas, you can't. First of all, if you try that, you don't rename the volume you just imported, you rename the name of the folder which keeps ALL of the foto's: All your pictures on All your DVD's seem to end up in the folder 'Slides078' or whatever you renamed G: to. And secondly, in no time Ligtroom renames the folder back to G:!
Another suggestion I keep seeing is: when you click the questionmark of an offline image, you get to see the original location as 'Foldername on Volumes\Volumename'. Again, I don't. All I get to see is: original location: "G:\filename"! I'm using Windows Vista; maybe, as someone suggested, it's an OS problem, and is the MAC version working fine...
I cannot figure out one way to get the Volumename of my DVD's (which I've written down on my DVD's, so that I can quickly find them) into Lightroom.
In other words, when I try to locate my offline images, all Lightroom is willing to tell me is: "This image is located on one of your many DVD's or CD's. Try to find it yourself, you lazy photographer!'
Do I really have to buy another DAM program to manage my offline images?!
I don't call this a Digital Asset Manager. I call this a HardDisk Manager with photoediting capabilities. No, not even that.
I call this a BIG BUG !!

You can blame LR that it doesn't use the Volume name for pictures just residing in the root directory of a disk. You are always on the save side if you put your images into folders.
The workaround is obvious: put your images never on the root directory but always into an folder with a name unique enough to find the disk if LR is asking for it.
If you have used plain DVD-R or DVD+R Media to archive your images you have to reburn to get a workable solution but this might also a good opportunity to switch to dvd-ram.
Side note: Archiving photos on DVD-R or DVD+R media is not save! With this media you risk data loss. There are quite some articles describing this. It is commonly agreed that DVD-RAM is much better suited for archiving puroses.
- with appropriate drivers you can use it like a hard drive filling it
step by step.
- you can change an update data files
- most of the newer DVD burner support DVD-RAM
- if not a DVD-RAM burner is not expensive (around 60$) and a very good investment
- if you do not like this idea store your files on portable hard drives
but not on DVD-R or DVD+R media.

Missing or Offline Images

Hi;
I have about 9000 missing or offline images according to my Lightroom3 software.
However, they're not! I can see them in the folders on an external drive where Lightroom says they are not. I'm confused, baffled, fed-up!
When I try to reimport them, Lightroom says they are already there, doubly confusing?!
Can someone please help me get them back in my Library so I can use them.
Many, many thanks.
PS I've had this same problem for a while, predating my recent update to v3 from v1.

When you have missing or offline images do NOT re-import. Since LR stores the edits and everything else you do in the catalog and not in the image file, you would loose everything you did by re-importing.
The correct way is to point LR to the missing image / folder. LR stores the location of an image (and its file-name) in the catalog, too. When you then move an image (or an image folder) or re-name them outside of LR, i.e. in Mac Finder / Win Explorer then there is a discrepancy for LR between what the catalog says and the actual situation on your hard drive(s). That creates the missing image message. "Missing" in this context means that LR does not "know" where the image is - it does not mean that the image is not somewhere on your hard drive.
For this reason, it is best practice to do all your image management (renaming of files/ folders or moving them) in LR. That way LR keeps track of where the images are.
You should see - in the folders panel (left side in Library Module - question marks besides the folders. This is LRs way of saying :I don't know where this folder is".
Right-click the top-most folder in the hierarchy of folders that show the question mark and select <Update folder location>. Navigate to the correct location of the folder and click on it. LR should then find the sub-folders on its own, provided that you have not changed the folder names or folder structure outside of LR.
If you have done this you have to do the <Update folder location> for each individual folder.
If you still have missing images after that, that means that you have moved images between folders 9outside of LR).
You then have to go the painfully slow route of pointing LR to each missing image. In the Grid View, the missing image should have a question mark on its frame. Click the question mark (hit it directly) and select <Find missing image>. Then navigate to the location of the image and click on it. If the file name has been changed you will be asked to verify that this is the correct image.
WW

Working with "Offline" images

I'll be installing Aperture 3 in the next few days, and have decided to use a referenced image library since I've already invested significant time organizing my photos on external drives. I have a library of approximately 20,000 images, split more or less equally between digital photos and scanned images (mostly scanned negatives and slides). Since I won't always have access to my external drives, I'd like to make productive use my time when not "connected" to my images. I understand Aperture will allow metadata work on these offline files. A couple of quick questions:
1. My full image library (the 20k I reference above) can be split into 3 distinct groups (essentially separate Aperture Libraries), but I may find the need to use images from across these groups for different projects (photobooks, etc.). Can this be accomplished easily if the images are in different libraries? Do the performance benefits of smaller, separate libraries out weight the benefits of having everything accessible in one Library?
2. I'd love to be able to play with the metadata when I'm on the road (adding keywords, adding dates to scanned images, etc). What metadata is not available for update when the images are offline? More specifically, does Aperture allow one to work on Faces & Places when offline?
3. My Master image file structure is currently date based (Year and Month). If I find that I need to move images from one folder to another (I realize, for example, that a scanned photo was actually shot in 1943, and is in a folder for 1944), what's the best way to move the photo while preserving the link to the metadata file? Does Aperture have features to help organize (move / delete / rename, etc.) referenced Masters?
Thanks.
Max

Hi Max. A few specific answers and a suggestion.
Max Tomassini wrote:
I'll be installing Aperture 3 in the next few days, and have decided to use a referenced image library since I've already invested significant time organizing my photos on external drives.
The "since" is something you should consider. See my comment at the end.
I have a library of approximately 20,000 images, split more or less equally between digital photos and scanned images (mostly scanned negatives and slides).
That is not actually very many. Current hardware and software can handle that easily.
Since I won't always have access to my external drives, I'd like to make productive use my time when not "connected" to my images. I understand Aperture will allow metadata work on these offline files. A couple of quick questions:
1. My full image library (the 20k I reference above) can be split into 3 distinct groups (essentially separate Aperture Libraries), but I may find the need to use images from across these groups for different projects (photobooks, etc.). Can this be accomplished easily if the images are in different libraries?
No. All containers in Aperture hold images +from the Library+ which holds the container. In order to have images in a photobook, they must be in the Library.
Do the performance benefits of smaller, separate libraries out weight the benefits of having everything accessible in one Library?
No, not at the scale of your Library.
2. I'd love to be able to play with the metadata when I'm on the road (adding keywords, adding dates to scanned images, etc). What metadata is not available for update when the images are offline?
None, iirc.
More specifically, does Aperture allow one to work on Faces & Places when offline?
Yes.
3. My Master image file structure is currently date based (Year and Month). If I find that I need to move images from one folder to another (I realize, for example, that a scanned photo was actually shot in 1943, and is in a folder for 1944), what's the best way to move the photo while preserving the link to the metadata file? Does Aperture have features to help organize (move / delete / rename, etc.) referenced Masters?
Yes. You can move, delete, rename Masters easily from within Aperture. In point of fact, every file operation on a Masters should be done from within Aperture. It's a DAMS -- it does not like it when you use other programs to manage the assets you have committed to manage with Aperture.
Masters are moved using the command "File→Relocate Masters".
Thanks.
Here's what you have to think about and plan for. Because useful tools were scarce and under-developed, users were forced to rely on +File Managers+ in order to do +image management+. With Aperture 3, image management has come of age. Using Aperture, you no longer need to use +file management+ to create +image management+ utility.
In fact, I highly recommend that you do not -- and further that you embrace the capabilities Aperture gives you and replace almost all thoughts of file management with plans for image management.
I have several (longish) posts on this subject -- I'd like to think reading them is helpful. The short version is that with Aperture the primary storage and access structure you create (which shows on the Library tab of the Inspector) is for your images. There are very effective, robust tools to customize this to present a degree of utility un-achievable with a +file manager+. The tools are the various containers, the sorting options, and the filtering options. The only "rule" you need to keep in mind is:
• Every Master must be in a Project, and can be in +only one+ Project.
In practice, making Project equal to "shoot" makes observing this rule trivial (and also makes Aperture easy to use).
Aperture has built-in at both the image-level and the Project-level date and time sorting. +There is no reason at all to create an image storage and access structure based on date.+ This is worth emphasizing: you cannot use Aperture and not have a complete, robust, useful date and time storage and retrieval structure for every image and every Project. It's built in. Recreating it with your Library is redundant. Redundancy is wasteful.
The secondary storage and access structure is for your files. With a Library consisting of only Managed Masters, Aperture does this for you -- there is nothing for you to do. With Referenced Masters, you are responsible for the filing structure of your Masters. Think carefully about what you actually need from the file storage structure, given that you are going to develop a fully-customized image storage and retrieval structure within Aperture. My conclusion was that for photographs taken by me, all of my needs were met by putting them together in one folder (with no shots not taken by me) and file them all into sub-folders by Y/M/D. After making a couple of settings, Aperture does this automatically. The other set of images I manage are "shots not taken by me". These go into either a general folder ("Others Shots") or client-specific folders ("JaneDoeInc"). (Note: these last are not shots taken by me for a client, they are shots taken by a client and included in a Library I administer.) Those folders, too, are grouped by sub-folders as Y/M/D. The only reason I have created three distinct folder "trees" is because I need to administer (primarily back-up) each of them differently. Back-up of Referenced Masters is NOT done within Aperture. Your planning of your Referenced Masters file folder structure should be guided by your file administration needs (again, this is primarily about backing up the files you administer). The only file adminstration need I had was to keep separate my shots, some clients shots, and other "not my" shots.
You can -- and likely should -- leave your current Finder folder trees intact. But you should plan on leaving that whole structure behind. *Use Aperture as a DAMS -- not as a fancy file browser.*
Good luck. Ask questions.
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How to delete references to "Offline images"

Howdy,
I have about 200 "Offline" images in my library that have no association with an image in my managed library. Every time I open a project with one of these images in it, AP tries to build a thumbnail of a non-existant image and hangs up.
How do I get rid of these references to "Offline Images" .
When I try to reconnect to these images Aperture needs to be forced quit.
I think I must get rid of the references in my library to these missing "OffLine images".
Dick B

Sounds like you have more than one issue - a referenced image simply being offline does not cause this behavior. You may want to try rebuilding your library? I have not had this happen to me ever (nor seen it in any of my many Aperture using associate's libraries)
RB

Offline media management

"Volume management New
Freely manage and organize your images across multiple drives, and continue to work with the high-resolution previews even when your originals are offline. "
This is exactly not happening in the LR2 trial - unless I'm missing something. Here, everything is grayed out, if the original can't be found.
Why can't we just have exported JPEGs stack with the original regardless of folder position? I want to have the originals on my external disks and configurable JPEG renditions on my laptop's disk. Best case: Automatic and with the same folder structure as original. If these renditions can act as previews, even better.
Note: I don't want a solution involving another piece of software and 1:1 previews are too big for my taste (and while standard-sized previews can be configured, they are limited to 2048px max).
Kind regards,
Martin

I have the same problem as Martin with grayed out previews of offline images in both LR1.4 and LR2.
While working on my intel based iMac using its default catalog all previews are fine and I can also view images that are offline, stored on an external drive.
To transfer this catalog to my Powerbook G4 I backed it up to the external drive. I started LR on the laptop, using the backed up catalog and now all previews of the images stored on the external drive a visible, but the offline previews from the photos stored on the iMac are all grayed out.
I changed the File Handling in Catalog Settings from 'Automatically Discard 1:1 Previews: After 30 days' to 'Never' but that did not make a difference.
Any advice on this subject will be appreciated,
Anja

Remote system image management

This is more of an image management than a package management question but the appropriate forum was read-only.
I'm looking into possibly using zen for managing software on an embedded system, but I have some requirements that I would like to know if zen is capable of handling.
The target system is a dual boot linux box. There are 2 bootable partitions, each with a different software version. I need to be able to upload and install a linux boot image to the non-active partition and update grub to allow access to the newly unpacked image. The user can then reboot into the other partition to activate the new software. If there's a problem they can reboot back into the previous version.
We've done this with home grown tools before but there is a desire for better integration with enterprise level management tools.
I'm not set on handling this exactly as described, so if Zen can manage something similar I would be interested in knowing how and would consider adapting our procedure to work with Zen.
Please cc any responses to bruce.edge<at>gmail.com
Thanks
-Bruce

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How do I use copyprofile, image manager and create a wim file to Sysprep a reference Windows 8 computer.

Im trying to deploy a reference machine (configured) to other machines (exact or close image) with different hardware.
I have successfully used sysprep in out of the box, generalise, shutdown mode although i havent tried to deploy this to another device. Unfortunately it doesnt copy the profile to default.
I understand that I have to create an answer file using image manager based on that image, save it to a usb drive and attach this in the sysprep command line when sysprepping it.
My problem is I dont know how to easily capture an image of windows 8 into a wim file so that i can add this into image manager to create a answer file. Im also not sure what I have to do in image manager, is it a simple matter of creating and saving
the answer file or do i have to configure it to copy the profile specifically (theres only one account anyhow).
I also want to know if i have to attach the drivers or are all the standard drivers put into the sysprep image as standard. I would like the machine to be an exactly replica, same as doing a clone (but with the drivers for the new machine installed
so it will boot) same as doing a clone and then repair? If thats possible.
Any specific instructions on this would be helpful. I have read the microsft links but they are somewhat confusing.

I know this is a very late response but I thought I'd post for others who search.
The easiest way to create the .wim file is via WinPE, this guy's two YouTube videos explain the entire process in detail -
Windows 8 ADK Part 1: Capture an OS image - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJ8zKX_8E9w
Windows 8 ADK Part 2: Windows Image Deployment - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHIvoqSw_FI
Here's a quick rundown from my notes:
WINPE
Create WinPE via imaging tools command prompt
copype amd64 c:\winpe
makewinpemedia /iso "c:\winpe" "c:\winpe\winpe64.iso"
UNATTEND
Open Windows System Image Manager
Configure unattend.xml
Save unattend.xml to sysprep folder
Create script and save it to sysprep folder to launch sysprep with unattend
@echo off
cd C:\Windows\System32\sysprep
Sysprep /oob /generalize /unattend:C:\Windows\System32\sysprep\unattend.xml
SYSPREP
C:\Windows\System32\Sysprep
Run as administrator
OOBE/Generalize
Shutdown
CONFIGURATION of WINPE
Set IP - netsh int ip set address "Local Area Connection" static 192.168.1.2 255.255.255.0 192.168.1.1
Set DNS - netsh int ip set dns name = "Local Area Connection" source = static addr = 192.168.1.4 validate = no
Map Network Name - net use z:
\\WindowsADK\reflex\images password /USER:domain.local\username
DISKPART
diskpart
list disk
select disk zero
list partition
select partition 2 (OS partition #)
Assign letter=S (assigns drive letter to partition)
Exit
DISM
dism /capture-image /imagefile:z:\image.wim /capturedir:s:\ /name:"Windows 8.1 Custom"
Verify image is saved in the image share (z:)
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Trying to Create a Catalog file using WSIM (Windows System Image Manager)

I have been looking online for a solution to htis problem for days and come up with nothing so any help would be amazingly helpful.
I have created a Windows 8.1 image which I would like to role out to all users within my company but when trying to create a catalog file I am getting an erorr message saying "Windows SIM was unable to generate a catalog." It says "Mounting
Windows Image file......This might take a few minutes" and then fails after 6-7mins.
When opening the log file I get this:
10:00 : Cannot obtain read/write access for F:\sources\install.wim.
In order to generate a catalog file, you must have read/write access to the Windows image file and its containing folder.
10:13 :
10:13 : Windows SIM was unable to generate a catalog. For troubleshooting assistance, see the topic: 'Windows System Image Manager Technical Reference' in the Windows OPK or Windows AIK User's Guide.
10:13 :
10:13 : System.InvalidOperationException: The operation failed to complete. ---> System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. ---> System.ArgumentNullException: String reference not set to
an instance of a String.
Parameter name: source
   at System.Globalization.CompareInfo.IsPrefix(String source, String prefix, CompareOptions options)
   at ?A0xfe36268f.ConvertToNtPath(String path)
   at Microsoft.ComponentStudio.ComponentPlatformInterface.CbsSessionAdaptor..ctor(String bootDrive, String imageWinDir, String servicingPath)
   at Microsoft.ComponentStudio.ComponentPlatformInterface.OfflineImageImpl.InitializePackages()
   at Microsoft.ComponentStudio.ComponentPlatformInterface.OfflineImageImpl..ctor(OfflineImageInfo imageInfo)
   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
   at System.RuntimeMethodHandle._InvokeConstructor(Object[] args, SignatureStruct& signature, IntPtr declaringType)
   at System.Reflection.RuntimeConstructorInfo.Invoke(BindingFlags invokeAttr, Binder binder, Object[] parameters, CultureInfo culture)
   at System.RuntimeType.CreateInstanceImpl(BindingFlags bindingAttr, Binder binder, Object[] args, CultureInfo culture, Object[] activationAttributes)
   at Microsoft.ComponentStudio.ComponentPlatformInterface.Cpi.PlatformImplementation.CreateOfflineImageInstance(OfflineImageInfo imageInfo)
   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
The one image that did work (LiteTouchPE_x64.wim) was from the OS I imported to Microsoft Workbench but the components are different to any that I have seen online when looking on how to do this.
I have made sure that the architecture is x64 and tried from ISO files I have on the system already but get the same error.
This is the first project I have been involved in and only ever done IT support before this.
Thanks for your help in advance.

Yes I am trying to capture a reference image that I have created on another machine and then reploy this through MDT. I am trying to open the Unattend.xml file because the "Capture and Sysprep" fails on the reference machine when trying to run
Sysprep. When I try to open the Unattend.xml file in MDT I get the error below:
Performing operation "generate" on Target "Catalog".
Starting: "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Deployment Toolkit\Bin\Microsoft.BDD.Catalog35.exe" "D:\Windows8.1 TEST3\Operating Systems\Windows8.1 x64\Sources\install.wim" 1 > "C:\Users\*****\AppData\Local\Temp\3\Microsoft.BDD.Catalog.log"
2>&1
No existing catalog file found.
PROGRESS: 0: Starting.
PROGRESS: 0: Creating mount folder: C:\Users\*****\AppData\Local\Temp\3\IMGMGR_install_Windows 8.1 Enterprise_njegg3ph.con.
PROGRESS: 5: Creating temp folder: C:\Users\*****\AppData\Local\Temp\3\IMGMGR_install_temp_qj0x3ga5.obv.
PROGRESS: 10: Mounting Windows image: D:\Windows8.1 TEST3\Operating Systems\Windows8.1 x64\Sources\install.wim. This might take a few minutes.
ERROR: Unable to generate catalog on D:\Windows8.1 TEST3\Operating Systems\Windows8.1 x64\Sources\install.wim: System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process
   at Microsoft.ComponentStudio.ComponentPlatformInterface.WimImageInfo.PreCreateCatalog()
   at Microsoft.ComponentStudio.ComponentPlatformInterface.OfflineImageInfo.CreateCatalog()
   at Microsoft.BDD.Catalog.Program.DoCatalog()
Non-zero return code from catalog utility, rc = 2002

Lightroom image management - ready for professionals?

Hi
I have a client, which is doing professional gardening photography for various magazines in this topic. Her business ranges from magazine reports about individual gardens to delivering single images to different publishers as requested (for example by flower type, color etc.). The main thing is that her image portfolio isn't organized so much in individual shoots or contracts. An image can be sent to many publishers at any time. She needs to kepp track of this. She needs to know, which image has been published when and where.
Before moving to digital recently, she kept track of here jobs with cumulus, which had more database capabilities, but much less possibilities in image adjustment. Shooting only raw with a Canon 1 series camera, she choosed Lightroom as here image editing and managing tool. Beeing pleased with the friendliness of the user interface and many of its image editing and managing capabilities, she (actually we) are astonished, that even in a version 2 it is still not really possible to keep track of what happens to the images in a professional environment (despite the claim of Adobe that the product is made for professionals).
In essence the program isn't really capable of managing image data, which has a one to many relationship to the image (i.e. the instances of cases an image is sent to a customer). We experimented with virtual copies, which can carry individual metadata, collections (which cannot carry metadata) or storing the required data in the large description field. None of these possibilites were really satisfying. The most promising solution in using virtual copies, ended up in a maintenance nightmare, because it was too easy to forget, where to do which data management (at the master raw file or at the virtual copy).
Then, I learned that with Lightroom 2 there is a possibility to extend metadata, but, unfortunately with the usual limitation of not supporting one to many data (in the SDK-documentation called "spreadsheet type data"). The rest of the SDK documentation did not reveal any other helpful way of solving the problem as the SDK deals mainly with export plugin programming or web stuff, which is of no use to the client. It is rather disappointing that Lightroom's extensibility is still so limited. Where is the programming interface, that allows the development of complete new modules?
Given the slow pace, Lightroom development takes (I can expect that "breakthrough" extensions to the SDK will take even longer), I guess that my client can wait for another 3 or 5 years until anything close to true image management will come up.
So we have to look for some intermediate solutions. Whereas other software (expression media, idimager, cumulus) may have better database capabilities, they lack in raw editing completely and are often more awkward to use. Therefore, I would like to ask the community here, how they handle the tasks described above with Lightroom or with other tools? Perhaps we have overlooked a Lightroom capability?
One thing I thought of is to develop a special keyword hierarchy for contracts, but this also would not allow, all the images tracking needed.
Any ideas? I guess there aren't any plugins, which can deal with one to many data.
Kind regards
Thomas

Actually, we haven't ruled out keywords yet, in fact, at the moment it seems to be the only realistic possibility. However, I wonder if a growing keyword hierarchy can become unwieldy at the end, so I am sceptical, if this idea would deliver.
In general, I think that Lightroom should more move into the direction of beeing a platform for other vendors. The limitation to web stuff and export solutions isn't enough. I hope to see third party vendor modules, eventually one which provides more professional image management and tracking capabilites, exploring the fact that Lightroom has a database underneath it.
I would like to see a DxO raw conversion module or a lens correction module, fields where I think Lightroom and ACR are still not the best in its class (I think LightZone and DxO are the better raw processing engines).
Unfortunately, I do not see Lightroom going much into this direction. Probably this is already too late for the version 3 release, due in 2010 (?), so we need to wait until v4 (in 2012 ?) until the situation improves?
I believe many customers (especially professionals with precious time) need a fully integrated system, which can do image management and image adjustment at the same time. Lightroom is the right platform for it, if Adobe let it be.
Kind regards
Thomas

System Image Manager

Where can I download the Windows System Image Manager?
I want to setup a preinstallion image and I need to generate an answer file but I need the SIM.

WSIM is part of the Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK). Download it here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c7d4bc6d-15f3-4284-9123-679830d629f2&DisplayLang=en

Image Management System

Is it possible to employ photoshop album starter edition as an image management system for our College staff? The system would require to be searchable over out Intranet and contain many images.

It depends exactly what you want to be able to do. I doubt very much whether you could really get the functionality you'd need, as it's not was PSA SE 3 was designed for.
The paid-for versions have slightly more flexibility, but they are not designed to be multi-user. There are other products designed for such purposes, but they tend to be a little costly.

What/Where is the 32-bit version of Windows System Image Manager?

I'm running into the problem described as follows in the WAIK documentation: "Windows SIM fails to create a catalog for a 32-bit Windows image from a 64-bit version of Windows SIM. To workaround this issue, use the 32-bit version of Windows SIM to
create catalogs for your Windows images."
Question: Where is the 32-bit version of Windows SIM? I can only find a single download for "The Windows® Automated Installation Kit (AIK) for Windows® 7"
Or are the 32-bit tools included in that version? If so, how do I use those instead?

Hi,
The issue should occurs when you install the WAIK on a 64bit Windows 7 machine.
You need install WAIK on a 32bit machine.
Different binary versions of Windows SIM cannot create catalog files for some Windows images of different architecture types. We recommend using the
32-bit version of Windows SIM to create catalog files because this version can create catalogs for all Windows image architecture types. The following list describes the Windows SIM architecture types and catalogs that can be created for each Windows
image architecture type.
x86 Image Manager. Can
create catalogs for x86, x64, and Itanium-based Windows images.
x64 Image Manager. Can
create catalogs only for x64 Windows images.
Itanium-based Image Manager.
Can create catalogs only for Itanium-based Windows images.
This article may helpful to you:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd744249(WS.10).aspx
Hope that helps.
Regards,
Leo
Huang
Leo Huang
TechNet Community Support

Upload/Insert PDF with Image Manager

I used to be able to insert a PDF and MP3 file through the Image Manager within the Item Description area but for some time have not been able to. I had asked the question in the old forums to no resolve. I've tried multiple sites from multiple browsers on both Mac and Windows but same issue.
What I do:
1.) From within any webpage/web app item description text area, I click on the Image Manager icon (little picture with sun and mtn. in the toolbar above the text area) and the Image Manager opens up.
2.) Now the Image Manager DOES allow me to upload both PDF and MP3 files onto the server from here (which is good). Then I go to the list and find the file on the server, I'll select the file and then click on "Insert" but the Image Manager just closes and nothing is inserted into the Item Description area.
This had worked for many years and like I said I can't get it to work in any testing scenerio. Same issue everytime when inserting, nothing gets inserted. The only alternative is manually inserted the href into the HTML but several of my clients have difficulty with this and it used to work before.
I know it's been stated that the Literature/Media Module is how you handle files but this is way more cumbersome then it should be and the way I and my clients used to do it through the Image Manager worked great. Any help or clarification would be great. I can't even find if this is a feature done away with. Thank you for the help.

Tersieff,
I know you mentioned it had worked for your over the years. However I would recommend using the either the file manager or better the media downloads to upload and manage your media files. I see that it would come in handy to be able to select the file through the image manager, but I don't think it's working for media files other than images. Using the media downloads you will be able to provide a download link to this file, the downside is that you will have to manually enter the module for each media download within the item description.
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Good Day,
I have some issues with CPI 1.2. I've tried to Import Images from Cisco.com through Software Image Management
for test purposes by using my credentials. But it has finished success just a twice. Other attempt hadn't any result.
Then I try to choose Image for my test 3750E switch, sometimes I have error message like bellow:
After I choose another image and return to first that I need, and press <Submit>, I have a message that "Image collection job CCO Image Collection Job is Scheduled Successfully":
I wait some time and refresh, but I don't see any new Images. The same problem exist then I try Import Images from connected Devise. I use Shedule Start Time - Now.
Also, I can't view any information about Image in Device Work Center:
Any ideas, guys?

I'm having the same issue. I'm thinking there are still a lot of bugs in PI that Cisco needs to work out. LMS is still the better option for now in managing your switching environment. I know that Cisco hopes to role all device management under the umbrella of PI, but they still have some bugs to workout IMO.

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