gfoto-metadata-fixer

The script

I havent been able to find a script that handles the image restoration correctly, so i decided to write my own. This cli app is very fast, however it still depends on how fast your drive is!

This script does the following:

• Restores original file names
• Fixes incorrect file extensions (needed for fixing exif data)
• Restores EXIF OriginallyCreated data
• It copies the files and the into a new directory (with the same structure) instead of overwriting the existing files.
• If it cant find the metadata for a file it will put it in a seperate directory

It handles some bullshit that google does that I have encountered myself:

• Google trims the metadata json to 46 chars
• Duplicate files that google decides to give a weird metadata file.
  • "IMG_20180214_171835513(1).jpg" has the metadata file "IMG_20180214_171835513.jpg.supplemental-metada(1).json"

The converter

This repo also includes a jxl and av1 conversion project. It takes all the images and convertes them to jxl/av1 spread out over seperate computers.

There is a server component that distrebutes the files, and a client component that converts it to jxl/av1, restores the exif, and sents it back to the server. The server than stores it in two folders, converted or converted_fucked, depending if the conversion succeeded or not :P.