I'm struggling a bit with generating an image sitemap for my website.

I've no problem when I restrict the image sitemap to active files only. The problems occur when I ask the system to look at the archived files as well.

The greatest number of files that I have managed to process is just under 500 out of nearly 800 on site. I get the best result with a split map and the request limit set to 500 ~ 15 minutes. Trying 750 ~20 minutes times out. Changing the max number of links per file has no effect.

Is there any way of excluding specific Categories from the image sitemap? I don't need to track a few of my categories.

My next step will be to set some files temporarily to Trashed status as I suspect JSitemap doesn't look at trashed files.