Immich does not puts screenshots as created today when it was taken in 2022.

[silk ruin]

Hi immich is working great for me so far but I have come across a problem of the screenshots, photos and videos showing that it was created today. Yes I did the extract metadata job.

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[silk ruin]

I'm not sure where my .env file is

But I remember having it and changing the time

And DB password I'm pretty sure

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[plain barn]

when there is no metadata in the files, (which is the case for screenshots) than the file-modifed date will be used, which is the upload time to immich. You have to use software like exiftool to add some metadata to the pictures (or a image-software that can add EXIF tags).

Im working on Kubuntu and im using KGeoTag and Exiftool to prepare all images prior to the upload and therefore im adding missing exif and gps tags (or correcting wrong tags).

especially mp4 is a big problem as there are no exif tags, and most of the time the date-created tag is not set and must be set (exiftool can do that)

you can also edit the metadata inside of immich after the upload in the image details pane

[silk ruin]

But on my phone it shows when the screenshot was taken

Is that not metadata

If not how could I mass extract that and put it to the screenshots, screen recordings, and saved photos and vidoes

[plain barn]

Exiftool. But you need UsB access to your phone and work directly on the phone storage from a pc, then you can copy the file date to the exif date

Do you have a Linux PC? That would be easier, Windows or Mac work also though

[plain barn]

Try to download an image from immich by selecting one of the images in question and press on the three dots button to reveal an additional options menu. Select download. Once downloaded, view the properties of the image and check what the creation date says.

If it shows a date other than the expected, It is because sometimes metadata like file creation dates are not static and gets modified when moving the files between filesystems/disks (which is what happened with immich probably).

Also what do you mean by your phone shows when the screen shot was taken? Is it the name of the image file? Or you mean the creation date on your phone?

If you mean the creation date on your phone, then as I said, it is probably because the image was created on your phone so the time of creation is applied prior to that. Uploading the image other than your phone storage probably overwritten the metadata that your phone added.

[silk ruin]

I just downloaded an image

And It shows it was created today

As in when I just downloaded the photo from immich

My phone shows the creation date on my phone

Not in the image name

[plain barn]

As I said, when you uploaded the image other than your phone storage the new filesystem or operating system overwritten the metadata based on its rules

[silk ruin]

I see

So there is no current fix for this right

[plain barn]

Just edit the image metadata, don't edit entries that could get overwritten like file creation date, file access date, file modification date and such, because again these gets overwritten, there are other entries that filesystems and operating systems won't touch like date taken metadata.

Immich has an option to edit the metadata.

[silk ruin]

I think I'll mass edit the meta data to be created long before and I'll shove the images in a screenshots album or something

[plain barn]

Press on the info button that looks like a circle with 'i' letter in it

[plain barn]

There are tools that automate such tasks based on other factors like file names

[silk ruin]

It's no biggy anyway

[plain barn]

however, I am not sure how immich would handel it if you edit the filesystem of immich directly. For now either to use the immich web interface or download the images that have wrong metadata again and run an automated tool like the popular open source tool called ExifTools

[silk ruin]

I'll just mass edit it in the immich web

Ah I see

That's no worries anyway