Invalid date, failed to load assets
Hello uploaded my Google photos and I have about 166 photos out of 16999 that show invalid date and I get an error failed to load asset in tje ui.
They are just grey thumbnails that can't be clicked on or selected. How on earth can I fix or just remove these problem files.
Running in docker on unraid.

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If this ticket can be closed you can use the /close
command, and re-open it later if needed.Hello, can you access the database and run the following query
Select a.id, a.”fileCreatedAt” from assets a where a.”fileCreatedAt” < “1900-01-01 00:00:00”
im not sure how to access database sorry im running in unraid tbh ive just deleted everything and starting again as i allowed immich go to upload google hpotos with missing json files maybe that caused it?
looks like i have 1273 fil;es with missing sidecar
Part of it, the other part is from the server, there is a problem with the database interpreting the date correctly but the timezone format is invalid in javascript
We will push out a fix later
so i should be able to upload images with missing json files and it be ok?
is it not possible to add a ui section that lists files with invalid data and allow you to edit or delete them from the ui to make it a bit more user friendly?
i also wonder why the android app only seems to show some of my pictures i would like to see all my photos on the server but it only seems to show up to 2021 when i have picture back to 2014 on the server.
im backing up my camera folder
Yeah the invalid date is causing issue with getting all assets on the mobile app
but wondered if immich can show "cloud" only files
This is planned
However this is fundamentally the issue with the server interpreting invalid date as literal invalid date without giving a fallback value
the server shows all the meta data no issues with those files i dont think
Yup, you can unselect all album for backup so your instance will show remote only file
seems to be mostly pictures i uploaded straight into the ui from onedrive so they are just .jpg files they show absolutly fine on the webui though
but if i select a folder it only shows pictures uploaded from that?
Correct
is there anyway to change that behaviour i want to upload from my camera folder but still see all photos on the server like google photos allows me to if you know what i mean?
what does the sync albums option mean in app please thanks for your help
There is not, we plan to rework this
Upload then auto addingg the newly upload asset to the corresponding album
Thanks for info
No problem