fix(images): fence the capture-date backfill on the file it read (#1201) (#1204)

The capture-date backfill committed its result keyed on the row id alone. It
snapshots every candidate up front, then walks them one at a time reading
originals off S3 or a NAS mount — a pass that can run for many minutes.

replacePhoto, reachable from the replace_by_name upload path, swaps a NEW file
under an existing row and rewrites path/filename. A replacement landing inside
that window carries no date of its own, so captured_at was still NULL, the
whereNull guard passed, and the previous file's EXIF date was written onto the
new photo. Silent: nothing errored, the run reported it as a success, and the
gallery just sorted that photo to the wrong place.

Fenced on path and filename as well as the id — the same fence #1199 put on the
orientation backfill for the same reason — so a replaced row matches zero rows
and is skipped. The candidate query already selects both columns, so no query
change. Knex renders a null value in the object form as `is null` on both the pg
and sqlite3 clients, so a row with a NULL path still matches itself.

Those skipped candidates are now counted rather than dropped. replacePhoto is
not the only writer of path/filename — eventRenameService rewrites both on an
event rename, which is not a content change — and another writer filling
captured_at first lands in the same place. Without a counter they fell out of
the run's arithmetic entirely: success + noExif + failed no longer added up to
the count the operator was shown when they started the job, on the card as well
as in the log.

The card shows the count only when it is non-zero, the same shape the
orientation job uses for staleTiers. The wording states what is known — changed
by something else, not updated — rather than promising a retry: for the
already-dated case there is nothing to retry, and the Missing Capture Date
figure above is what says whether work is left. Locale coverage matches the
staleTiers key (en, de, fr, sl), with the defaultValue carrying the rest.

Regression test: a replacement landing mid-run leaves captured_at NULL and is
not counted as updated. Verified to fail against the unfenced code.
This commit is contained in:
Paul Nothaft
2026-08-27 08:44:19 +02:00
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parent fb7af502ec
commit cec8eff70c
7 changed files with 74 additions and 5 deletions
@@ -734,6 +734,24 @@ export const StatusTab: React.FC<StatusTabProps> = ({
failed: captureDateStatus.lastResult.failed,
defaultValue: 'Last run: {{success}} updated, {{noExif}} with no date found, {{failed}} unreachable',
})}
{/* Only when it happened, like the orientation job's staleTiers
below. Without it the three numbers above silently stop
adding up to the count the run started with: a photo that
was replaced, renamed or dated by someone else mid-run is
read but not written.
Deliberately says "not updated" and not "will be retried":
one of the two ways to land here is another writer having
filled captured_at, and that photo is finished, not backlog.
The Missing Capture Date figure above is what says whether
anything is actually left to do. */}
{Number(captureDateStatus.lastResult.skipped) > 0 && (
<span className="block text-amber-600 dark:text-amber-400 mt-1">
{t('settings.captureDates.skipped', {
count: captureDateStatus.lastResult.skipped,
defaultValue: '{{count}} photo(s) were changed by something else while the run was reading them and were not updated.',
})}
</span>
)}
</p>
)}