[Feature] Move detection in external libraries

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• Yes

The feature

In the External Libraries documentation ( it states:

> If you add metadata to an external asset in any way (i.e. add it to an album or edit the description), that metadata is only stored inside Immich and will not be persisted to the external asset file. If you move an asset to another location within the library all such metadata will be lost upon rescan. This is because the asset is considered a new asset after the move. This is a known issue and will be fixed in a future release.

Is there currently a timeline when this known issue will be fixed?

It would be great to finally be able to move and modify files in an external library and not have to rescan, regenerate thumbnails and re-run face detections on thousands of assets each time.

Platform

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