Photos are all over the place date wise
My immich album has photos in wrong dates everywhere, I just set it up. Photos from years ago showing on the timeline for last week. Not sure what happened, it was initially correct and after re-running some of the background jobs it's fubar.
Is there a way to re-index or re sort everything correctly?
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If this ticket can be closed you can use the /close command, and re-open it later if needed.Those photos are probably from app like Whatsapp, Snapchat, TikTok or Screenshot, which doesn't come with the EXIF metadata so Immich will use the upload date for the asset's date
we are looking into probably solve this problem in the coming releases
Thanks, that is unfortunate for now. You are right they are mostly from whatsapp. Can you suggest a way to sort those photos on my current instance?
I'm guessing I'll have to remove all the images, use a third party tool to modify the exif date for the images from whatsapp, and then import them again to immich?
That will work, right.
Alternatively, there is an API-based solution https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/9116#discussioncomment-13465857 which does not re-upload files