Also, Firefox sometimes has issues asking permission to download multiple files at the same time.
If it's ok with the devs, I'd like to take this on as a first issue.

Sure, pull requests welcome :) still on vacation until next week

@Chadea how are you uploading the live photos? Whenever I transfer them off my phone (to Photoprism or to my Mac), I find that they're converted to JPGs.

I’ve been copying them to the import folder over SMB using an app (PhotoSync) on my phone, I had to add the yaml and json sidecar option to my photoprism instance. That allows the small .movs to be linked. As detailed when I asked #422

I should add, when I sync I have turned on jpg so I have a .jpg .heic .mov and photoprism now links them.

I created this issue #934 that relates to this issue because I almost think it be nicer to let the user decide which version to pick from.

Would this be resolved when you change the settings as described at https://docs.photoprism.app/getting-started/config-files/settings/#file-downloads?

I tried with those setting changes but no luck. Only getting a .heif when downloading Live Photos

Download:
Name: file
Disabled: false
Originals: true
MediaRaw: true
MediaSidecar: false

@melyux What files do you see on the files tab of your Live Photo? Are the related JPG and MOV files located in Originals or in Sidecar?

The files tab shows:

• .heic file in Originals
• .mov file in Originals
• .heic.jpg file in Sidecar

What version are you running? I just tested the same scenario on my own setup:

Disabled: false
Originals: true
MediaRaw: true
MediaSidecar: false

Results in downloading the .heic and .mov file as those are the originals.

Disabled: false
Originals: false
MediaRaw: true
MediaSidecar: false

Results in downloading the .heic and .mov and .jpg file.

Note that those settings are not applied if you download a complete album, see also: https://docs.photoprism.app/user-guide/settings/general/#downloads

I'm on the latest, seeing some interesting behavior:

• Desktop Safari: The .heif and the .mov files both download sequentially as individual files (nice)
• iOS Mobile Safari: Only the .mov file downloads
• iOS Web App (Homescreen App): Only the .heif file downloads

You need to give permission to download multiple files.

I don't think iOS has an option for that. Maybe "setting a delay between file downloads allowed enough time for Safari to process that there should be multiple files downloaded."

Could be it. If true, Apple should fix this ASAP.

Current behavior is honestly not too bad, but sometime only the .mov file comes (randomly), so that's not good. I think most people would be mostly happy with just the image downloading, but no one wants to download only the .mov of a Live Photo

We can zip it like back in the 90s? Vision Pro.

Maybe prioritize the .heif (or the image) file to always come first when doing multiple downloads from a Live Photo?