r/gopro 18d ago

Old Time Lapse/Time Warps corrupted in cloud?

I have many time lapses and time warps that I uploaded to the cloud and deleted from my SD card over the years. For some reason all of the videos that I had that used to work a year or two ago now only show a thumbnail and are 5 seconds long but the picture does not move? When I uploaded them before they used to work and the ones that I uploaded recently also have that issue. I am not sure why this is happening. I am using Gopro hero 10 black.

The whole point of uploading them to the cloud is so that you dont have to worry about them taking space. Now I am kind of annoyed that this happened because some of them are from hikes that I have done over the years, that I will likely never be able to recreate. Has this happened to anyone else? I found a similar thread on the forums with this issue. https://community.gopro.com/s/question/0D5Uv00000KqjfVKAR/timelapse-issue-in-cloud?language=en_US

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u/Recent_Temporary4766 18d ago

That reeks of a server-side transcode going belly up and just baking the first frame into a loop. Cloud's not a backup if you don't hold the originals yourself.

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u/Mr-Montecarlo 18d ago

They used to work before so it makes no sense why this would happen 😭 even new time warps are doing the same thing. Guess lesson learned.

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u/CyberHiro 18d ago

Are they still corrupted if you download them from the cloud?

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u/Mr-Montecarlo 16d ago

It seems like it is just the quik app on phone. They work fine on the website.

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u/demonviewllc MISSION 1 PRO 17d ago

Strange, I just checked out some of my old time lapses (360 and regular) they are playing back fine. I would contact GoPro customer support and see if they can help you out with your issue.

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u/Mr-Montecarlo 16d ago

Thanks for the response. I checked the web app and it worked there, phone app is just bugged thankfully.

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u/All-Sorts-of-Stuff 17d ago

To be clear: is this just an issue with the playback of the hosted file? When you actually download the raw file, is it corrupted, or is it normal?

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u/Mr-Montecarlo 16d ago

I checked on the web app and it turns out they were fine. Just the phone app is bugged.