Albums no longer are created in Immich from Google Photos

[jjennissen]

I did an import yesterday of my large Google Photos account into Immich which was successful except for the majority of my albums were not created. But the images in them were present.

Speaking with @simulot we discovered there has been a new change in the metadata files.

Here is an example from the log:

2025-02-06 12:00:44 WRN unsupported file file=takeout-20250206T172235Z-001:Takeout/Google Photos/Basement Office/metadata.json reason=unknown JSONfile

and metadata.json looks like this

{
  "title": "Basement Office"
}

[simulot]

Gosh!
I have to adapt the code.
Stay tuned.

Could you attach a few samples of metadata.JSON files?

[jjennissen]

metadata.json

metadata.json

metadata.json

metadata.json

[thegabriele97]

Yep the same happened to me with some albums. Photo uploaded but album not created.

this is a metadata.json that failed on my side, I redacted some info

{
  "title": "Album Title",
  "enrichments": [{
    "locationEnrichment": {
      "location": [{
        "name": "Name_Of_Location (Here I've the city)",
        "description": "Here I've the region",
        "latitudeE7": 12345789,
        "longitudeE7": 123456789
      }]
    }
  }],
  "sharedAlbumComments": [{
    "creationTime": {
      "timestamp": "1596183682",
      "formatted": "Jul 31, 2020, 8:21:22 AM UTC"
    },
    "contentOwnerName": "My_Name_On_GP",
    "liked": true
  }]
}

[licryle]

hu-ho -- should we hold off importing recent Takeouts for the time being?
Might be worth a note on the README

Also, fyi, the latest release version is tagged as "dev" :) Probably not intended.
Thanks for all the truly amazing work simulot!

[nipuna-perera]

I want to confirm that the latest version. 0.23 even though tagged as Dev, worked for me. It didn't drop any albums.

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[simulot]

Thanks for the reporting the version error. It will be fixed with the next release.

The version you have taken from the release page is the v0.23. This version fixes:

• The album import
• The supplemental-metadata.JSON issue

And many more issues of the v0.22