Thread:Project:Support desk/Advanced Meta Incompatible with Manual:importImages.php/reply

Well don't use the extension then :) [Otherwise known as anyone can write an extension, therefor they are of variable quality]. Additionally, MaintanceShell does some scary stuff to "work", and isn't exactly "supported"

As for your other issues mentioned on the page. The image sub-directories aren't random, they are based on the md5 sum of the image name (This is needed because putting 100000 files all in the same directory tends not to work well. It can be disabled if you want. However, you can't just put images in the directory with ftp, since files need corresponding db records and such. You can maybe get around that with foreignFileRepo's if you wanted to)