Don`t clear photo metadata

[lpite]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Localsend clears all metadata from photos

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[Tienisto]

Can you tell me what platforms you use?

Does this error still exist if "Save media to gallery" is turned off?

[lpite]

platform ios or windows.

if "Save media to gallery" is turned off it saves metadata but if add to gallery date is not right

[wenLiangcan]

Same here. The images I sent to my iPad from Windows by LocalSend had been reduced more than half the size and lost all the EXIF data. I did not notice this at the first time and deleted all the original files 😰

[Tienisto]

I feel sorry for you...

I don't know a solution yet because "Save media to gallery" is handled by https://pub.dev/packages/image_gallery_saver and I don't know if there is a better library that actually respects EXIF data.

[wenLiangcan]

No problem and thanks for your work.

By having a look at the library you mentioned, may I suggest some advices? (Since I don't own a Mac, I'm afraid that I couldn't help on contributions of code)

• There is a default value 80 of the parameter quality of the method saveImage. So, the way you calling it currently would cause compression of the images.
• The saveImage method converts image of any format to JPEG, I think this is the reason why metadata gets lost.
• The way to keep the original media files is using the saveFile method.

[Tienisto]

LocalSend already use saveFile:

https://github.com/localsend/localsend/blob/main/lib/util/file_saver.dart#L38

[wenLiangcan]

oops, sorry, I get you wrong

[TheGB0077]

This library says that it does no modifications to the source file, so maybe it's worth a look 🤔
https://pub.dev/packages/add_to_gallery

Although it doesn't handle videos, that is not great...

[Actuallymax]

same here, switch to landrop then everything is fine

[liuguanglin]

This bug still exists on the Android client V1.14.0.
I sent photos from Android to Windows, but the GPS information on these photos was lost.