Hi Everyone! :grinning: I have spent a number of day and hours trying to get my csv into a format that will upload properly for my observations. I have attached a screenshot of a small number of birds in an csv as a sample test. Any help in what I am doing wrong is well appreciated. Stay safe, …

Oh! As well, Here is a screen shot for the import settings for the csv into Openoffice Calc. Jeff :) [import settings prob csv1]

what errors are you seeing when you try to upload the file? if you still see errors: please capture the errors and share screenshots instead of providing screenshots of your CSV opened in OpenOffice Calc, please open it up in a simple text editor (like Notepad, if you’re using Windows), and copy …

Pisum, Thanks so much for your help! The first screenshot above in my post shows you the way that i set up my rows and columns. Here is the text of what I am told is wrong with my csv ==> translation missing: en.we_tried_to_process_your_upload_named_filename The species listed below were not …

the reason why i asked you earlier to paste the plain text of your file was because it’ll be easier to see what’s happening if we can see exactly what the text of the file looks like, not what it looks like after it’s been imported into a spreadsheet program. specifically, it would be helpful to see…

let me try and upload the file if that helps… hopely i have it in the correct view you are looking for Taxon name Description Date observed Place name Latitude / y coord / northing Longitude / x coord / easting Tags Geoprivacy Rock Pigeon Columba livia livia 2018-01-10 Santa Barbara—Hendrys Beach-…

yes. this makes things clearer. based on what you’ve pasted in the above post, you’re using a tab as your delimiter instead of a comma, you need to make sure that your CSV (comma separated value) file is actually delimited by commas. so if your spreadsheet isn’t handling the conversion to CSV correc…

Thanks pisum! let me give a try and let you know Jeff :)

Hi Pisum! Well, I had to edit more to fit the requirements you referred to in the uploading csv to iNaturalist. As well, you were correct in that the headers must remain in the same place. I wanted to denote subspecies after the name. but it ended up in the notes finally, which is fine. THE IMPO…

i’m happy to hear that you were able to get your first batch of data uploaded, and i’m glad to help. welcome to the forum. [image] hokkaidojef: I wanted to denote subspecies after the name. but it ended up in the notes you may want to try putting your scientific names in the taxon name colum…

CSV file acceptance problems (small file)

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