There seems to be a new difficulty during the process of duplicating observations. I posted an observation of a Western Honey Bee on a White Melilotus. Then I duplicated the observation so that I would be able to use it for an observation of the White Melilotus. By the time I could see the new flowe…

The file name is the text that appears on the photo before the “.jpg” part of it. EG for these it’s “DSC02966” and the like: [image]

Yeah, I’m not sure what the photo file name is when you’re duplicating an existing observation. I would think it would just be “original.jpeg”, from https://static.inaturalist.org/photos/58570626/original.jpeg?1577436401 , from right click>Copy image address here: https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/5…

Thanks. I’ve never seen these DSC numbers or .jpg numbers at any other time from taking the photos to uploading them to iNat. I may try to find them later, but I really don’t even like the idea of having to get involved in these kinds of things. At least I understand generally what has happened now. …

[image] bouteloua: Do your photo filenames happen to have “ada”, “bd”, or “bsal” written anywhere in them? [Screen Shot 2019-12-27 at 2.06.22 PM] I don’t see any of those exactly, but the words “Add a” appear several times.

[image] bouteloua: Do your photo filenames happen to have “ada”, “bd”, or “bsal” written anywhere in them? On the one used for the bee and Melilotus observations I just get the same “Add a” but no “bd” or “bsal”, (and I didn’t get a map this time because it’s a different camera with no GPS, u…

@bouteloua , you asked me about “ada”–what do those letters relate to?

It was listed as an unaccepted synonym for Brassia. I’m a bit stumped on this one myself.

Okay. I wasn’t following the other threads before (I thought that I wouldn’t get caught up in this since I never do file names). Thanks.

Do you know if the incorrect ID was showing in the “species name” box before you clicked “submit”? My recent experience was that I could correct the filename-based ID before I hit “submit.” But I just discovered that the uploader isn’t using filenames today. Let’s hope it doesn’t revert.

[image] NancyinSunnyvale: Do you know if the incorrect ID was showing in the “species name” box before you clicked “submit”? Yes, the incorrect IDs appeared in the Uploader before I hit Submit, each time within 2-3 seconds. [image] NancyinSunnyvale: My recent experience was that I could …

Incorrect IDs added automatically when duplicating an existing observation

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tiwane December 29, 2019, 12:38am 33

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Incorrect IDs added automatically when duplicating an existing observation

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