improvement: date for file that haven't exif data

.gitignore

@@ -12,5 +12,6 @@ notes.md
 log.txt
 idées.md
 poc/
-list.txt
-log.log
+*.txt
+*.log
+debug*.*

go.mod

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/kr/fs v0.1.0 // indirect
 	github.com/pkg/errors v0.9.1 // indirect
 	github.com/pkg/sftp v1.13.5 // indirect
+	github.com/rwcarlsen/goexif v0.0.0-20190401172101-9e8deecbddbd // indirect
 	golang.org/x/crypto v0.11.0 // indirect
 	golang.org/x/net v0.12.0 // indirect
 	golang.org/x/sys v0.10.0 // indirect

go.sum

@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ github.com/pkg/sftp v1.13.5 h1:a3RLUqkyjYRtBTZJZ1VRrKbN3zhuPLlUc3sphVz81go=
 github.com/pkg/sftp v1.13.5/go.mod h1:wHDZ0IZX6JcBYRK1TH9bcVq8G7TLpVHYIGJRFnmPfxg=
 github.com/pmezard/go-difflib v1.0.0 h1:4DBwDE0NGyQoBHbLQYPwSUPoCMWR5BEzIk/f1lZbAQM=
 github.com/pmezard/go-difflib v1.0.0/go.mod h1:iKH77koFhYxTK1pcRnkKkqfTogsbg7gZNVY4sRDYZ/4=
+github.com/rwcarlsen/goexif v0.0.0-20190401172101-9e8deecbddbd h1:CmH9+J6ZSsIjUK3dcGsnCnO41eRBOnY12zwkn5qVwgc=
+github.com/rwcarlsen/goexif v0.0.0-20190401172101-9e8deecbddbd/go.mod h1:hPqNNc0+uJM6H+SuU8sEs5K5IQeKccPqeSjfgcKGgPk=
 github.com/stretchr/objx v0.1.0/go.mod h1:HFkY916IF+rwdDfMAkV7OtwuqBVzrE8GR6GFx+wExME=
 github.com/stretchr/testify v1.7.0 h1:nwc3DEeHmmLAfoZucVR881uASk0Mfjw8xYJ99tb5CcY=
 github.com/stretchr/testify v1.7.0/go.mod h1:6Fq8oRcR53rry900zMqJjRRixrwX3KX962/h/Wwjteg=

immich/assets/localassets.go

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import (
 	"path"
 	"path/filepath"
 	"strings"
+	"time"
 )
 
 type LocalAssetBrowser struct {
@@ -25,6 +26,8 @@ func (fsys LocalAssetBrowser) Stat(name string) (fs.FileInfo, error) {
 	return fs.Stat(fsys.FS, name)
 }
 
+var toOldDate = time.Date(1980, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC)
+
 func (fsys LocalAssetBrowser) Browse(ctx context.Context) chan *LocalAssetFile {
 	fileChan := make(chan *LocalAssetFile)
 	// Browse all given FS to collect the list of files
@@ -61,6 +64,14 @@ func (fsys LocalAssetBrowser) Browse(ctx context.Context) chan *LocalAssetFile {
 						DateTaken: metadata.TakeTimeFromName(filepath.Base(name)),
 					}
 
+					if f.DateTaken.IsZero() {
+						err = f.ReadMetadataFromFile(name)
+						_ = err
+						if f.DateTaken.Before(toOldDate) {
+							f.DateTaken = time.Now()
+						}
+					}
+
 					if fsys.albums[path.Dir(name)] != "" {
 						f.AddAlbum(fsys.albums[path.Dir(name)])
 					}
@@ -101,6 +112,22 @@ func (fsys LocalAssetBrowser) Browse(ctx context.Context) chan *LocalAssetFile {
 	return fileChan
 }
 
+func (l *LocalAssetFile) ReadMetadataFromFile(name string) error {
+	ext := strings.ToLower(path.Ext(l.FileName))
+
+	// Open the file
+	r, err := l.partialSourceReader()
+
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	m, err := metadata.GetFromReader(r, ext)
+	if err == nil {
+		l.DateTaken = m.DateTaken
+	}
+	return err
+}
+
 func (fsys LocalAssetBrowser) BrowseAlbums(ctx context.Context) error {
 	fsys.albums = map[string]string{}
 	err := fs.WalkDir(fsys, ".",