Immich is pulling the incorrect time and date from images
I just bulk uploaded a Google Photos Takeout to Library to Immich and noticed that a bunch of images and videos are incorrectly dated in Immich. Before uploaded, I made sure to run EXIFtool the EXIF date taken as well as the file creation date were correct (pulled from the json files Google Photos uses).
I double checked the originals and the dates where correct, but noticed that Immich was actually using the file modification date instead of the EXIF date or creation date. I'm not sure why it did this for random images and videos but I assume it isn't supposed to work this way. I re-ran the EXIF data extract and the issue wasn't fixed. Any idea what is going on or how to fix it?
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Immich sometimes takes a bit to process all the assets you upload in the background, make sure all the jobs have finished running
Yurp, all jobs are done running. Tried rerunning metadata extract and Sidecar Metadata again. nothing. Even figured id reboot and run again. still nothing.
Have you matched the takeout json metadata with the photos/videos?
Not sure what you mean by "matched" but I did run EXIFtool to update each individual images EXIF taken date and the files creation date to the date in the images matching json file prior to uploading them to Immich.
Immich looks for some specific exif properties to use as date. Have you had a chance to look at this https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/1340
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I didn't read it prior, but skimming it I get the general issue that people are having. All in all, none of it applies here as everything was updated correctly with the corresponding dates is the correct fields of the EXIF as noted in this FAQ https://immich.app/docs/FAQ#why-does-my-uploaded-photo-show-up-with-the-wrong-date-or-time-in-immich.
DateTimeOriginal (EXIF), CreateDate (EXIF) and Date Created (File Info) were all updated using EXIFtool to the same date; the date the photo was taken according to the corresponding JSON file.
I can verify prior to Bulk Upload via Immich CLI that the dates are set correctly. After importing Immich ignores the DateTimeOriginal, CreateDate and Date Created of some of the files and instead and the files Modified Date is used.
If I downloaded the incorrectly dated image directly from Immich, open it up and check the DateTimeOriginal, the correct date is there. So for some reason Immich is ignoring a date that the file clearly has.
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May i suggest to give a try to https://github.com/simulot/immich-go
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Update: nope still the same issue with immich-go. plus it fails a few thousand uploads in lol
Feel free to open an issue with details