Changing GPS location changed date on photos
I went through hundreds of photos on Apple photos and entered the GPS location. Then I uploaded the photos to Immich (this was a new install), the dates are correct in Apple but on Immich the date is the date I changed the location on. Photos from 2010 are showing yesterdays date. Is there a way to get everything corrected?
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UPLOAD_LOCATION=/mnt/ciri/photos
DB_DATA_LOCATION=/opt/immich/data
TZ=America/New_York
IMMICH_VERSION=release
DB_PASSWORD=henney2020!
DB_USERNAME=postgres
DB_DATABASE_NAME=immich
Immich server: v1.130.3
Immich app: 1.30.0 build.198
Ubuntu 24.04.2
Sounds like your files don't have proper time metadata
How do I go about getting the correct time metadata?
Check what's currently on the file first
The location data didn’t come over either
Interesting...
I just exported some photos (with their .xmp files) from the "Photos" app. on my Mac to my NAS, then imported them to Immich in my 'External Library', and none of them have location data either.
The location shows fine in the Phone, in the 'Photos' app., and in the exported images if viewed by an external app. (Pixea or Preview) on the Mac....so Immich is missing something here.
I have just discovered that this .xmp problem is NOT an Immich issue...
Basically when Lightroom created the .xmp files it was dropping the "-" sign at the beginning of the latitude field...
So in Immich it "looked like" there was no map being shown, but it was showing a map in the middle of the ocean as the co-ordinates were wrong - it looked like there was no map, but it was just a blank/dark image of water.
Did it do like "latitude: 50, Someothervar: East" maybe?
It had values in the .xmp file such as:
<exif:GPSLatitude>32.519316666666666</exif:GPSLatitude>
when it should have been:
<exif:GPSLatitude>-32.519316666666666</exif:GPSLatitude>
So the coordinates would land in the middle of the ocean...
NB. the ones above are not the real latitude.
I understand, but did it also add some extra value that would mean + / - ? 😛
Nope, it was as simple as a missing '-'.
I just ran sed over them to fix them and now they are 100% correct.
All the other values are fine.
Ha! Looks like the problem actually rests with MacOS Photos, if you export the xmp sidecar with the image.
https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-discussions/gps-location-imported-from-iphone-has-wrong-hemisphere/td-p/10829873
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