From f62e56456b1a7190081bb8288273f58dcfc774a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Tran <alex.tran1502@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2025 15:49:01 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] fix: metadata extraction failed on high concurrency

---
 server/src/repositories/metadata.repository.ts | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/server/src/repositories/metadata.repository.ts b/server/src/repositories/metadata.repository.ts
index 32882de0e0..fd4cda4cad 100644
--- a/server/src/repositories/metadata.repository.ts
+++ b/server/src/repositories/metadata.repository.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ import { Injectable } from '@nestjs/common';
 import { BinaryField, DefaultReadTaskOptions, ExifTool, Tags } from 'exiftool-vendored';
 import geotz from 'geo-tz';
 import { LoggingRepository } from 'src/repositories/logging.repository';
-import { mimeTypes } from 'src/utils/mime-types';
 
 interface ExifDuration {
   Value: number;
@@ -82,6 +81,7 @@ export class MetadataRepository {
     inferTimezoneFromDatestamps: true,
     inferTimezoneFromTimeStamp: true,
     useMWG: true,
+    taskTimeoutMillis: 1 * 60 * 1000,
     numericTags: [...DefaultReadTaskOptions.numericTags, 'FocalLength', 'FileSize'],
     /* eslint unicorn/no-array-callback-reference: off, unicorn/no-array-method-this-argument: off */
     geoTz: (lat, lon) => geotz.find(lat, lon)[0],
@@ -104,8 +104,7 @@ export class MetadataRepository {
   }
 
   readTags(path: string): Promise<ImmichTags> {
-    const args = mimeTypes.isVideo(path) ? ['-ee'] : [];
-    return this.exiftool.read(path, args).catch((error) => {
+    return this.exiftool.read(path).catch((error) => {
       this.logger.warn(`Error reading exif data (${path}): ${error}\n${error?.stack}`);
       return {};
     }) as Promise<ImmichTags>;