iNat doubling my observation photos

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Android photo gallery, long press several pictures to select them, then touch the share icon and select the iNaturalist app from the options that pop up. All default apps, no third party gallery.

Today it didn’t double the photos, the phone may have rebooted since last time this happened.

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Looks like you’re using a Pixel. So are you sharing from the Files app, or Google Photos? I’m assuming the former?

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No, Google Photos.

The doubling, when it happens, happens after selecting a taxon. Import as described above (say, 2 photos) → touch “what did you see”, make some selection there → now there are 2x2 photos.

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This exact thing happens to me too, usually after I’ve already uploaded a few other observations. I’m also using a pixel and your workflow.

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Here is an example that shows that the images are actually uploaded (not just displayed) twice. The images have different individual IDs.

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/400802948

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Thanks. I tried to replicate this a bunch of times on my Pixel 8 yesterday, both with the current release and the beta version, and could not replicate it. I did create a bug report, though.

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Thanks. I also haven’t found a way to make this happen reliably. It just does from time to time.

I’m curious if the log files I sent on 9/16 and 9/17 make/made any difference.

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Yes, If I crop a photo, and and add to upload and move it to correct location, it about half of the time will duplicate, which is very annoying. I have to delete the duplicate over and over and over.

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Ok, it seems to only double before metadata loads, I got a screen recording
I need to find a way to upload it, It may take a minute

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Here is my screen recording: https://streamable.com/ibhk5q
I hope this works

edit: I tried uploading a duplicate and it stays

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this bug report refers to the Android app

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@bouteloua Ok, others were talking about the website on here too, so I was sharing my bugs as well. Do you know if there is an existing bug for the website duplicating photos? If not, I can make a new bug report

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I’m not sure!

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I don’t think so…please make a new one, this doesn’t sound familiar to me.

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@tiwane here you go: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/inat-doubling-observation-photos-in-upload/86326 :)

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It just happened again, twice.

First after selecting a project from the list of my joined projects. Then I deleted the duplicated pictures, and went on to select a taxon. After that the pictures were doubled again, and I had to delete the duplicates a second time.