I'm a newb when it comes to archiving images, so any help you can give me would be greatly appreciated. I want to use Plone as a content management system (CMS) my images, which are currently stored on my hard drive as PNM files. These files are scanned copies of 4x6 images, and are usually ~6 MB in size. I am using Plone 2.0.4 with CMF Photo Album/Photo 0.5.0 and pil 1.1.4. I use the PNM file format for my pictures because it's the "rawest" format that I can use with xsane (I also use Gentoo Linux). When I upload my pictures in the PNM format to Plone, I'm not able to see them. I then tried converting the image (using convert) to a tiff file (since that's also pretty "raw", right?) and uploading it. However, I'm still not able to see the image in my cmf photo album. I ended up converting it to a bitmap, and I'm able to see that in my album. Is the bmp file format considered a "raw" format? I would like to keep it as raw as possible so that I can use (or at least convert) my images 50 years from now. Is there a better format to use? I'm using plone as my CMS because I want to attach metadata to my images. Is anyone else using a different free program that works better than this solution? Thanks in advance! Tom Purl