Photo edited on mobile app is saved as new item (and cannot edit on web)
- When I rotate a photo on mobile app the only option to save is "save to timeline" and that creates a new asset with suffix
_edited. This is "wrong" in the sense that every other tool I know where you edit an asset edits the asset, not a new one. Having considerable amount of wrongly oriented assets becomes complicate because the newly edited asset will hold zero metadata of the old asset (location, date, etc.).
- On web I cannot edit at all (rotate, etc)
Are there plans to correct this?
Creating a copy when you edit an asset should, if anything, be a choice, not the unavoidable default (of course, I might miss the option, please let me know if I do!)5 Replies
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Successfully submitted, a tag has been added to inform contributors. :white_check_mark:This has been discussed a lot and not sure if any definitive decision has been reached yet: https://discord.com/channels/979116623879368755/1071165397228855327/1409163351426203649
You can read a little here
Uhm - that discussion seems merely someone asking but no one replying or maybe meddled in all the rest of the discussions
I am surprised this is not a "clear" shot.
When I use iphone photos > it keeps the original and lets you revert to that, but shows the edit by default. Nice, but IMO overkill.
When you edit any asset on any device as in for example "open picture" in any OS native tool and edit, save... you save that original, unless you have some option to say "save to copy", but that is in as far as I experience never the default and never no option
Genereally, "know what you do > warn > save".
The current situation is literally muich worse than making an edit to a pic accidentally, specially something as revertable as a rotation.
You basically end up with potentially thousands of duplicates just because you rotated them.
I guess you could download them > rotate > delete remote > re-upload > fix metadata if necessary.
In this case it defies the tool to edit.
Is there a more dedicated discussion to this issue than the borad chat you linked to?
The very least should be to copy the meta data 🙂
I understand the philosphy of "do not edit original", yet, what is done now is almost the same, it creates a copy that is no true copy.
You can certainly look around github, I am sure there is one. This was implemented as a first pass a while ago and hasn't really been touched since. The core team has been focusing on the mobile app sync and stable release for the past while more than anything.
If you would like to open a discussion and open a PR I'm sure the idea would be entertained for enhancing the functionatlity.
PR less so, not familiar at all with the language in which immich is written unfortunately
I will search git to see if the discussion exists or add some new one, thanks.