# Data Downloading **URL:** \ **Category:** Bug Reports\ **Tags:** web, download\ **Created:** [August 29, 2026, 12:57am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/data-downloading/84664 "2026-08-29T00:57:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![that\_cameraman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/that_cameraman/32/76458_2.png) [@that\_cameraman](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/that_cameraman)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2026, 12:57am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/data-downloading/84664/1 "2026-08-29T00:57:15Z")
**Platform** : Inatralist **App version number** , if a mobile app issue: **Browser** , if a website issue: Firefox **URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages**: NA **Screenshots of what you are seeing** : **Description of problem** : I can not export data over 1000 observations ever single time i do it tells me to send it to me email and it never appears, this is a problem that cannot be fixed by using another browser - i have tried Step 1: Step 2: Step 3: ---
**Author:** ![schoenitz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/schoenitz/32/56_2.png) [@schoenitz](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/schoenitz)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2026, 2:11am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/data-downloading/84664/2 "2026-08-29T02:11:10Z")
Automatic spam/promotion filter on your end? Data export has never not worked for me. ---
**Author:** ![pisum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/91b2a8/32.png) [@pisum](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/pisum)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2026, 2:16am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/data-downloading/84664/3 "2026-08-29T02:16:00Z")
if you go to the export page ([https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/export](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/export)) and look at the bottom of the page, do you see your export job in the Recent Exports section? if it has as Download button next to it, it means that the job finished (and presumably you just didn’t receive a notification e-mail). if you don’t see the job at all, it means that the job never queued up properly. if you see the job, but it’s in some other status, then maybe it’s stalled somehow. what do you see in the Recent Exports section? ---
**Author:** ![that\_cameraman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/that_cameraman/32/76458_2.png) [@that\_cameraman](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/that_cameraman)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2026, 3:40am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/data-downloading/84664/4 "2026-08-31T03:40:36Z")
even if i clear the recent exports and stop any that are still happening (which never get sent to my email) they still dont work at all, ive checked my spam and promotion folders and nothing, i want to be able to anyalze the data from Inaturalist and this seemed like the easiest way ---
**Author:** ![pisum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/91b2a8/32.png) [@pisum](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/pisum)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2026, 3:50am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/data-downloading/84664/5 "2026-08-31T03:50:36Z")
> [@that\_cameraman](#): > > even if i clear the recent exports and stop any that are still happening so are you saying that you do see jobs in the Recent Exports section? what is their status? are there any there that are queued but not started or started but not finished? (note that for any jobs that have finished, you can download the results by clicking the download button next to the job record in the Recent Exports section.) ---
**Author:** ![that\_cameraman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/that_cameraman/32/76458_2.png) [@that\_cameraman](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/that_cameraman)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2026, 8:37pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/data-downloading/84664/6 "2026-09-12T20:37:38Z")
For one reason or another it seems to be working now