Rotate an image using an ios device create a duplicate photo on sync (original and rotated)

[sms-ebarbeito]

Describe the issue

Rotated photos (i think all edited photos) on my ios device duplicate on my linux machine using scripts.

How to reproduce the behavior?

• Take a photo on IOS, then wait to sync with the docker.
• Rotte the image using the ios function
• When resync the image is duplicated on my linux machine (the original and the rotated one)

Error Code

no errors

Relevant log output

Nothing to show, only see two identical photos, one rotated and one original.

Operating system

Ubuntu 24.04

Execution environment

docker

icloud-photos-sync version

1.3.0

Checklist

• This is an issue and not a question or feature request
• The sync was performed a couple of times and the issue is persisting and consistent
• Checked out open and known issues
• Enabled crash and error reporting

[steilerDev]

Hey @sms-ebarbeito - I think this is expected. The original picture is the master record held by iCloud, any edit to the photo will be stored as the current 'edited' state. It seems it does not matter if you are actually editing the file or just rotating it.

The tool currently only writes the iCloud state to disk - and this separat edited file is part of that.

One of the things I always wanted to implement was a more flexible way of choosing which files to keep (edit, master, thumbnail, etc.) - the tool could have a flag for that and only keep the edited version and ignore the master version.

[sms-ebarbeito]

Ok, I didn check the icloud api, I reported because if I go to icloud web only show the edited photo, not both.
The feature you are talking about could be a good improvement.