title: Avoiding 100 item limit in the Media Library
body: <p>We have a project for which we are storing user profile photos in Sitecore. Our user base is going to be integrated with LDAP (meaning that we will have tens of thousands of users, if not more), and profiles will be created the first time a user logs in. Users will be able to change their profile photos later, and we have a customized Sitecore Profile, which has a property to store the ID of the profile photo media item. </p>
  
  <p>What I am trying to do is figure out a way to avoid breaking the 100 item limit and store the photos in the Sitecore Media Library. We do not want to use item buckets, and we want to leverage Sitecore caching, so storing the images externally is out. I was thinking about a ten-level deep folder structure based on the username, but that is a bit dirty. </p>
  
  <p>Does anyone have any suggestions that might help? </p>
  
  <p>Thank you, in advance.</p>
  
  <p><em>Sitecore 6.6</em></p>