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Step 1: Can’t upload any photos, old or new. Eventually, after many, many minutes, I might get a red exclamation point. Or, I might not. Just teh dialogue box that says I can choose to “keep editing” instead. I’ve read the other similar posts. They are old. And I have tried all those fixes. Tried Chrome and Firefox
On Windows, pressing F12 on Chrome or Edge will bring up a menu to the side. On the top bar, look for ‘console’. If there are errors, it’ll say so. If you copy and paste them here, it can be useful to pin down the reason why.
I believe on mac it is command + option + J. Not sure how to get it for other browsers
to clarify a bit, are there any errors in the console when you have problems uploading images in iNaturalist?
so maybe the best way to tell if there are any errors is to open up your browser, and open up your developer tools console before you go to iNaturalist. at this point, any errors noted there are irrelevant. then go to the iNaturalist upload page. you shouldn’t see any new errors at this point. then try uploading some images to the upload page. assuming you have problems uploading the images, you should also get some error messages logged in the console. those are the errors that are relevant to your issue.
Thank you for that. Things started popping in the console as soon as I opened iNat.
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I just tried to upload, and was successful. I cleared teh console prior, but new things appeared on upload Here they are. Just to mention–this issue started after I turned on the setting in my phone to sync the metadata to the photos. I do not upload from my phone. I upload to my PC and then upload to iNat. I turned the metadata sync off before shooting the pics I uploaded today. Could the metadata sync be the issue?
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those messages aren’t related to your issue. we’re looking only for errors (not warnings) that appear when you encounter an issue uploading files in the upload screen. it sounds like you didn’t encounter issues during upload today. so there’s nothing you need to share. you only need to share the errors that appear when you actually encounter an issue.
Gotcha. Thanks. Just had one. This appeared when uploading tow pics as one Obs; pics from camera. I can tell there is an issue when the “uploading” dialogue box has a button that says “keep editing.” FYI–uploaded some from my camera an hour ago w/o issue. Thanks again.
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I just tried again with teh same 2 pics. The warnings appeared when I obscured my geoprivacy. I used the same process that I used earlier tonight, so not sure what is going on.
again, warnings don’t matter. the only things that need to be shared are errors that occur when you encounter an error loading images in the upload page.
I can tell when there is going to be an issue. The “loading metadata” message below each photo doesn’t clear–except, eventually, when the red exclamation point appears. I know error reports would be helpful. None are being generated. So, I am attaching a screenshot hoping something will help.
tried that with the upload button. it doesn’t recognize word docs. Anyway–thanks for teh image of youtube errors. I really am not getting any error messages.
Could an adblocker do this–and not leave error messages? I use AdBlock. It used to be amazing, for years. Then about 2 years ago, they started charging. The last couple months, I have ahd to disable it on YT and Facebook–where you need it most–or any time I played a video, all bowser windows would freeze. I literally could not use a browser for anything–for minutes. AdBlock’s product has gotten much worse. But I can’t find anything better, at least not w/o paying to see if it works.
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