poisonborz
IImmich
•Created by poisonborz on 12/23/2024 in #help-desk-support
Dates based on path (folder structure/filename)
It would be immensely useful if Immich would support photo data taken based on the folder structure instead of exif. I know of utilities like exiftool could be used to write folder-based data right in the image files, but this is a bit unflexible and I wouldn't want to mutate the files for metadata like this.
To clarify, the main use case for this would be external libraries (=not files directly uploaded via Immich).
The user could define date template - in the same format as Storage Templates. When the option is enabled, date fetching from metadata is disabled (or optionally would only work for ones not having exif date data?) and would be instead retrieved based on the path and this template.
If - as I guess - this is currently not possible, I would be also interested in contributing this code. But I don't know if the devs would be willing accept such a concept, tho I guess that belongs to another post.
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