I had this with some old photos but you can quickly rsync preserving metadata and then use exiftool to fill in the time and the whole thing will always work. After that I pasted it in Google Photos and it’s correctly in the timeline. Remarkable how easy this stuff is these days with LLM.
> I had this with some old photos but you can quickly rsync preserving metadata and then use exiftool to fill in the time and the whole thing will always work.
Sorry, I'm not sure if I'm missing something, but what's rsync's role in this?
Just in this “import to disk” vs “import to usb” thing from OP. Can just do former then copy it over. Nothing special about rsync. Just used as shorthand for copy because I don’t like working on the originals.