How does this happen? Quite a few instances of this: Essentially each observation has an observation without a picture but with locality, and another without locality but with a picture. Effectively each observation has a pair of observations with each others missing data. Is there a way of easi…

I’ve had this happen. For me, it seemed to be coming from uploading a photo that was no longer on my phone that had to be downloaded by my photo storage app. I use Google Photos and will delete photos that are backed up. I tested it out a while ago and had the observation post correctly while the ph…

[image] optilete: I have the same problem. How can you/ I prevent this? As stated above, we need to understand the cause before we can fix it or provide prevention advice. [image] edgarallenhoopoe: I use Google Photos and will delete photos that are backed up. If you are choosing a ph…

It downloads the photo and then uploads it, but something in that process seemed to be causing an issue. I plan on taking some phone photos this weekend, so I’ll test it again to see if it’s still a problem.

As soon as anyone experiences something like this, please send a log file ASAP form the app to help@inaturalist.org . The more information we can get about the conditions, the better we can replicate and resolve it.

Yup! I messaged them about it earlier in the year when it started happening to me.

Instructions here: [image] About the Bug Reports category - please read before posting! If the bug relates to our Android app, please send a log file to help@inaturalist.org right after the bug or crash occurs. To send a log file, go to the Settings tab in the app and tap three times on the vers…

another case: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&subview=grid&user_id=bestfam&verifiable=any unfortunately, too late - users appear unaware of the problem if using their smartphones. Only obvious on the web version afterwards. I dont think the app crashes. I think that this ju…

another: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/23871906 & https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/23871833 and this https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/23956659#activity_comment_2859313 has no photo on the website, but apparently looks OK on the app.

another: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/23886002

Android app double posting

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