media synchronization no longer working when product images in sub folders

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I am using Joomla 2.5.7 and Virtuemart 2.0.12.f

I organize all my media in subfolders by brand and then by product type to keep it simple to manage. eg public_html/images/stories/virtuemart/product/Brand/Dining Tables

Today I added some images and tried to sync them and no new images were synced. I know there was a limit to how deep the subfolders could go so I thought maybe that had been changed. So I uploaded an image right to the product directory and it synced fine. Then uploaded it to product/brand and it worked. So all I can guess is the subfolder depth has been changed. Could someone tell me why and if it can/will be changed back? I have a large # of images and subfolders make it so much easier to keep the images of available products up to date.

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Anyone else having this problem? Any solution that's not changing the way my product images are organized?