Error Moving photo from one person to another or merging persons

[SeekDaSky]

Describe the bug
The Recognize plugin created two clusters for the same person, trying to merge them results in a 404 for the call MOVE /remote.php/dav/recognize/USER/faces/FACE_ID/FILE_NAME.

Merging two person suffers from the same bug

It is unclear to me whether this is a recognize bug or a photos bug, if this is not the right place I'll raise a similar issue in the recognize repo

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Use the recognize plugin
2. Have it create 2 persons
3. Try to merge them
4. See error

Expected behavior
The photo should be moved / the persons merged

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• Browser: Firefox
• Version: 144

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[pangwa]

same here

[axelere]

Hi,

I have the same issue:

logs :
{
"reqId": "DBfuSbfgFA1OSl0uT8VU",
"level": 1,
"time": "2025-11-07T10:48:10+00:00",
"remoteAddr": "",
"user": "",
"app": "no app in context",
"method": "MOVE",
"url": "/remote.php/dav/recognize/bjacottin/faces/56/20191030_172536.jpg",
"message": "Uncaught exception",
"userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/139.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 OPR/123.0.0.0",
"version": "32.0.1.2",
"exception": {
"Exception": "Sabre\DAV\Exception\NotFound",
"Message": "",
"Code": 0,
"Trace": [
{
"file": "/mnt/nextcloud/3rdparty/sabre/dav/lib/DAV/Tree.php",
"line": 95,
"function": "getChild",
"class": "OCA\Recognize\Dav\Faces\FaceRoot",
"type": "->"
},
{
"file": "/mnt/nextcloud/apps/dav/lib/Connector/Sabre/QuotaPlugin.php",
"line": 140,
"function": "getNodeForPath",
"class": "Sabre\DAV\Tree",
"type": "->"
},
{
"file": "/mnt/nextcloud/3rdparty/sabre/event/lib/WildcardEmitterTrait.php",
"line": 89,
"function": "beforeMove",
"class": "OCA\DAV\Connector\Sabre\QuotaPlugin",
"type": "->"
},
{
"file": "/mnt/nextcloud/3rdparty/sabre/dav/lib/DAV/CorePlugin.php",
"line": 603,
"function": "emit",
"class": "Sabre\DAV\Server",
"type": "->"
},
{
"file": "/mnt/nextcloud/3rdparty/sabre/event/lib/WildcardEmitterTrait.php",
"line": 89,
"function": "httpMove",
"class": "Sabre\DAV\CorePlugin",
"type": "->"
},
{
"file": "/mnt/nextcloud/3rdparty/sabre/dav/lib/DAV/Server.php",
"line": 472,
"function": "emit",
"class": "Sabre\DAV\Server",
"type": "->"
},
{
"file": "/mnt/nextcloud/apps/dav/lib/Connector/Sabre/Server.php",
"line": 211,
"function": "invokeMethod",
"class": "Sabre\DAV\Server",
"type": "->"
},
{
"file": "/mnt/nextcloud/apps/dav/lib/Server.php",
"line": 424,
"function": "start",
"class": "OCA\DAV\Connector\Sabre\Server",
"type": "->"
},
{
"file": "/mnt/nextcloud/apps/dav/appinfo/v2/remote.php",
"line": 22,
"function": "exec",
"class": "OCA\DAV\Server",
"type": "->"
},
{
"file": "/mnt/nextcloud/remote.php",
"line": 151,
"args": [
"/mnt/nextcloud/apps/dav/appinfo/v2/remote.php"
],
"function": "require_once"
}
],
"File": "/mnt/nextcloud/apps/recognize/lib/Dav/Faces/FaceRoot.php",
"Line": 115,
"message": "Uncaught exception",
"exception": [],
"CustomMessage": "Uncaught exception"
},
"id": "690dce7083d05"
}

[speendo]

I also have this issue. At least the message seems to come from the photos app.

[pangwa]

I fallback to use memories to merge peoples. It works.

[trajano]

Or Immich :) but yeah Photos app is still buggy up until now. I can't find the part in the code myself to see what causes it. But my suspicion is there should be a part of the code that chooses the remote.php/dav/recognize/... (which on its own gives a 404) but it should've done the in remote.php/dav/files/... or it could be that it is expecting recognize to handle it but it does not do that yet.

[trajano]

Looking into that train of thought it appears to be likely due to nextcloud/recognize#1422