Imported albums got current date

[papinist]

Hi, I imported my google photos takeout, and noticed that all albums have yesterday's date instead of the original creation date. Actually I don't know if it's an info that you can get from anywhere, but in this case you could use the date from the oldest photo in that album? I can't find in immich a way to change that date..

[simulot]

Thank @papinist for testing the project.

If you mean about google album's creation date? In my takeout, date is missing. Could you share the metadata.json file content?

[papinist]

Yes probably this is a date that isn't present in google albums. My question was because immich probably has a bug: even ordering album per "most recent photos" I got an album order that appears to be random (first album has pictures from 2020, while I have albums with very recent photos). Having uploaded all my pictures yesterday, both "created date" and "updated date" report yesterday date. I don't know how to fix that honestly.

[simulot]

My guess is that Immich uses photo's take of take to sort albums. Can you look at you photos and check:

• the photo date in Immich
• the date in the associated json file from the takeout
• the exif date

[papinist]

Sorry for the late reply. got this picture as example:

immich reports date correclty

also exiftool has correct date

ExifTool Version Number         : 12.67
File Name                       : IMG_20161119_195330.jpg
Directory                       : P:/Takeout/Takeout/Google Foto/1░ raduno Mustang6g Toscana - Calenzano
Warning                         : FileName encoding not specified
File Size                       : 1191 kB
File Modification Date/Time     : 2023:09:28 05:26:34+02:00
File Access Date/Time           : 2023:10:10 21:15:45+02:00
File Creation Date/Time         : 2023:10:01 01:59:36+02:00
File Permissions                : -rw-rw-rw-
File Type                       : JPEG
File Type Extension             : jpg
MIME Type                       : image/jpeg
JFIF Version                    : 1.01
Exif Byte Order                 : Big-endian (Motorola, MM)
Make                            : LGE
Camera Model Name               : Nexus 5
Orientation                     : Horizontal (normal)
X Resolution                    : 72
Y Resolution                    : 72
Resolution Unit                 : inches
Software                        : HDR+ 1.0.118402515y
Modify Date                     : 2016:11:19 19:53:32
Y Cb Cr Positioning             : Centered
Exposure Time                   : 1/23
F Number                        : 2.4
Exposure Program                : Program AE
ISO                             : 524
Exif Version                    : 0210
Date/Time Original              : 2016:11:19 19:53:32
Create Date                     : 2016:11:19 19:53:32
Components Configuration        : Y, Cb, Cr, -
Shutter Speed Value             : 1/23
Aperture Value                  : 2.4
Max Aperture Value              : 2.4
Subject Distance                : 0 m
Metering Mode                   : Center-weighted average
Flash                           : Off, Did not fire
Focal Length                    : 4.0 mm
Flashpix Version                : 0100
Color Space                     : sRGB
Exif Image Width                : 3286
Exif Image Height               : 2432
Sensing Method                  : One-chip color area
Scene Type                      : Directly photographed
Custom Rendered                 : Custom
Exposure Mode                   : Auto
Digital Zoom Ratio              : 1
Scene Capture Type              : Standard
Contrast                        : Normal
Saturation                      : Normal
Sharpness                       : Normal
Subject Distance Range          : Unknown
Image Unique ID                 : 991f21e070c49ae20000000000000000
Offset Schema                   : 12
GPS Version ID                  : 2.2.0.0
GPS Latitude Ref                : North
GPS Longitude Ref               : East
GPS Altitude Ref                : Above Sea Level
GPS Time Stamp                  : 18:53:30
GPS Dilution Of Precision       : 7
GPS Img Direction Ref           : Magnetic North
GPS Img Direction               : 184
GPS Processing Method           : fused
GPS Date Stamp                  : 2016:11:19

data from image json file:

{
  "title": "IMG_20161119_195330.jpg",
  "description": "",
  "imageViews": "255",
  "creationTime": {
    "timestamp": "1479640469",
    "formatted": "20 nov 2016, 11:14:29 UTC"
  },
  "photoTakenTime": {
    "timestamp": "1479581612",
    "formatted": "19 nov 2016, 18:53:32 UTC"
  },
  "geoData": {
    "latitude": 43.8471639,
    "longitude": 11.1746722,
    "altitude": 100.0,
    "latitudeSpan": 0.0,
    "longitudeSpan": 0.0
  },
  "geoDataExif": {
    "latitude": 43.8471639,
    "longitude": 11.1746722,
    "altitude": 100.0,
    "latitudeSpan": 0.0,
    "longitudeSpan": 0.0
  },
  "url": "https://photos.google.com/photo/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
  "googlePhotosOrigin": {
    "webUpload": {
      "computerUpload": {
      }
    }
  }
}

and from album's metadata.json (actually it's called "metadati.json" in italian)

{
  "title": "1° raduno Mustang6g Toscana - Calenzano",
  "description": "",
  "access": "",
  "date": {
    "timestamp": "0",
    "formatted": "1 gen 1970, 00:00:00 UTC"
  },
  "location": "",
  "geoData": {
    "latitude": 0.0,
    "longitude": 0.0,
    "altitude": 0.0,
    "latitudeSpan": 0.0,
    "longitudeSpan": 0.0
  }
}

Album in immich reports correct date (actually it's the date of all pictures)

but in albums list there's the creation date (updated date is when I removed the video with wrong date)

Sorry for the long post!

[simulot]

@papinist is this problem still current?

[papinist]

I just did one big import of all my google photos images and albums, so I don't know if importing now is different. Also, I'm still on Immich 1.83 because of the breaking changes with newer versions..

[simulot]

Well, I close this issue. Feel free to reopen it