I have a similar issue since yesterday; metadata of the photos (both date and gps) will not be fetched, although this information is in the metadata of the file. I use the standard uploader (green upload button on the website). Will send a example photo per mail. Thanks!

I think this bug has just been fixed, it now works for me flawlessly! A big thanks to everybody involved.

@agujaceratops I moved your post from the original topic because that one concerned our old uploader , not the standard one. I tested your photo and can replicate the issue. Photos created from the same camera, with the same type of metadata, were being read by the uploader prior to a day or two ago…

@tiwane Thanks! Yes, everything used to be working fine, I had no problems with uploading on Nov 21, 10:01 PM CET. I did a test with one of my older photographs that I had uploaded some time ago: I am certain metadata had been read correctly back then (as I never entered any date manually), but now …

Hmm, that’s fascinating, I’ll make a bug report. Out of curiosity, which software do you use to edit your photos?

My problem is also with metadata not being read, but in this case it’s not reading the “description,” even though the location and date come through perfectly. I have my photos in Apple Photos, but I don’t send them directly to iNat. I export them from Apple Photos to a folder on my desktop as .j…

[image] tiwane: Out of curiosity, which software do you use to edit your photos? I’m having a similar (the same?) issue, with files edited from raw with Darktable, also on Linux. I think it’s also available in Windows, if that helps with testing, although I’m not sure in what state :)

@tiwane I use Gwenview for cropping under Linux. Because it is super fast: Zoom in so that the organism is filling the screen, and use shift+c+return to crop the image to the area currently visible on the screen. With this, cropping does just take 2 seconds per image. I don’t want to miss this …

So I like to edit some of my photos in darktable for observations, such as cropping and brightening, but all of a sudden iNaturalist isn’t adding the date/time of the photo to the observation when I import the edited photo. I have checked the photos exported from darktable and they all have the capt…

Hiya, don’t want to be a pest but it would be great to get an update on what’s going on with this, as it’s a bit annoying and slows me down when uploading a bunch of observations.

Can you please email one or two of these photos to help@inaturalist.org so we can take a look at them?

Metadata not being read in standard uploader

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jdmore November 24, 2019, 7:56pm 5

I wonder if this is related in some way to the recent filename parsing improvement? The timing seems about the same.

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Metadata not being read in standard uploader

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