I do like that concept of of pushing photos to the files section, as that allows for the sub-folder organization. One of my groups just underwent a files reorganization. There was hope we could do the same to the photos section. We had one album of some 200 photos in a album that a member downloaded all and consolidated that story in a single pdf file.
I can see the photo section then being locked from up? loading, but the attachments folder could still be visible and serve as pointers to the discussion messages.
I just wanted to highlight that there are two controls that may be utilized to manage storage area utilized by the emailed photos album.
Those are in the "Message Policies" setting:
These allow a resolution setting that also limits the space utilized. The second says what will happen if we're bumping against the storage limit..
Cheers,
Dave F.
Dave Farrington