Hi, did you ever come up with a viable solution? We are experiencing this same issue, and running into the same wall re: large number of users and directories.
Specifically, the crop aspect ratios are not overriding the default image crop aspect ratios. My cq:editConfig <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<jcr:root
xmlns:sling="http://sling.apache.org/jcr/sling/1.0"
xmlns:cq="http://www.day.com/jcr/cq/1.0"
xmlns:jcr="http://www.jcp.org/jcr/1...