Wrong order on timeline?
Hello,
Today I adjusted the EXIF data for most of my photos, and also checked the videos.
However, I'm stuck with videos on the date 11/03/2022, which was the file creation date. The modified date has the correct video date.
Immich correctly picked the modified date as the video date (checked by clicking on the video and seeing the details on the right).
However, on the timeline, said videos are still showing on the 11/03/2022 and not on their dates.
Is there a way to force refresh the timeline somehow?
Thanks!
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Run the metadata extraction job for all items
that would take quite long. do you think it would fix it?
because for images, after correcting the date, and refreshing metadata just for that item, when I refresh the timeline it goes in the correct place
You can also select the offending images and just run the job for them
Wait, is this an external library or mobile uploads?
external library
for images that works, it's videos that seem bugged?
Ah, for external library you need to refresh metadata for changed files, it's all in the docs
Yes, but Immich does get the correct date for the metadata
it's just not putting it in the correct order on the timeline
can you give a screenshot or two?
which version of immich are you using?
1.81.1
The date on that first video is saying 2018, but on the timeline it's still placed in 2022
I think it's probably related to transcoding, since I cancelled the transcoding tasks as I didn't think they were necessary
As a test, I made a copy of that video and added to a new library, and it is correctly placed in the date from the metadata. Something seems to be stuck with these ones. I don't want to have to redo all my library because it's huge. Any way of removing and adding again just those videos?
can you check the metadata of the video (i.e. in windows) and see if there is any reference to 2022 in there?
there isn't. it used to be the created date when I first added it to Immich
but since then I corrected created date, modified date, etc on the file
what is the order of events here? Did you try a metadata refresh of the video after changing the metadata?
Added to immich, lots of videos and photos were grouped on that same 2022 date.
Checked all of those and corrected EXIF and created date for all
Refreshed metadata for the whole library, and for individual items
Immich correctly picked up the new date for each file, as shown on the screenshot
Images correctly moved in the timeline to their dates. Videos, however, are stuck on that original date.
I tried refreshing metadata and refreshing library, but that position seems stuck. Only way of correcting is to rename the file.
I wonder if this could be a bug in the library refresh code for videos specifically
there was a bug in the initial release that used the wrong date for items
It looks like it
I found something else that's quite interesting, possibly related:
I have a video which the time is:
19 Jul 2017
Wed, 17:44 GMT-07:00
That's how immich detected it, and all is well.
However, it is placed on the 20th of July, not 19th, because my timezone is GMT 00:00
(on the timeline)
I think I found the answer!
The problem lays in the transcoded videos
After correcting the original video, the date was correctly read, but it looks like for the timeline, it still reads the date from the transcoded one, which wasn't updated
that's very interesting, would you like to file a github issue about that?
sure
I'm working on a workaround, which is basically deleting the transcoded video, which forces immich to recreate it
do you know when does immich detect the transcoded video is missing? is it only when you try to play it?
I don't know, but I'd like to investigate 🙂
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