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Step 1: I’m not sure you can replicate the issue because it happened when I went to upload 2 photos. It listed the metadata as being taken in 2014 even though on the info Mac Photos it said 2018. I’m not sure my screen shots uploaded here.
Thanks @jdmore. I don’t think I’ve encountered this problem before. I am wondering where iNat finds the the 2014 date since the photo id has the 2018 date.
I can’t be 100% sure because it was a while ago. As mentioned above, here is what the info says on my Mac. I know nothing about the concept of metadata, and I don’t know how to get at it. It looks like this photo was taken with my Fujifilm camera so most likely I would have downloaded the picture directly to my laptop.
I just tried uploading a few other photos from this Feb. 2018 time period, and they are all saying 2014/01/01 on iNat. When I try photos from Mar. 2018, they all have the correct date.
Seems the forum (just like iNat) removes all metadata so we can’t see it. @llsrvd You should try uploading it to some file sharing service (Google Drive, https://www.file.io/) so we can access the original photo and try to reason from there.
Thanks @exonie. I’m not really familiar with file sharing services. I did upload one to iNat, but from what you’re saying, this may not help? I can’t really think of why this would have happened. The date of 01/01/14 and on and after midnight seems odd. Also I did not have the Fujifilm camera in 2014. This only involves a handful of photos, so if I am able I can just change the date manually.
This sounds like a small problem just related to me and just for that small time period. If I decide to upload those few photos, I will just change the date. Thanks all for your help.
The observation is obscured, and iNat removes the public date, time, and location metadata from photos associated with obscured observations. Only the observer can see them.
@llsrvd what you can do is go to https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/236274253 and take a screenshot that shows the date/time metadata from the photo (don’t include the GPS coordinates). Or, you can email the photo to help@inaturalist.org and I can take a look at it. Please make sure to attach the photo and dont put it in the body of the email. Oftentimes doing the latter removes metadata from the photo.
Hi @tiwane I appreciate the help, but this problem has only cropped up for a small group of photos, only 6 of which I might submit to iNat. I can just change the date. I don’t think it’s worth spending your time on. Many thanks!
