# Missing observation?

**URL:** <https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/missing-observation/27250>\
**Category:** Bug Reports\
**Tags:** web\
**Created:** [October 17, 2021, 4:20pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/missing-observation/27250 "2021-10-17T16:20:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![mrtnlowr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/mrtnlowr/32/6890_2.png) [@mrtnlowr](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/mrtnlowr)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2021, 4:20pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/missing-observation/27250/1 "2021-10-17T16:20:19Z")

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Please fill out the following sections to the best of your ability, it will help us investigate bugs if we have this information at the outset. Screenshots are especially helpful, so please provide those if you can.

**Platform** (Android, iOS, Website): Website

**App version number** , if a mobile app issue (shown under Settings or About):

**Browser** , if a website issue (Firefox, Chrome, etc) : Chrome

**URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages**:  
[https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/98500534](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/98500534)  
[https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/98500536](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/98500536)  
and others from same user  
**Screenshots of what you are seeing** (instructions for taking a screenshot on computers and mobile devices: [https://www.take-a-screenshot.org/](https://www.take-a-screenshot.org/)):  
Search mole yet the obs are visible from identify but cannot be identified - update fails.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/3X/3/a/3ab8381a1341753b0f54ee5a1b65a229b7f20f5e.jpeg)

**Description of problem** (please provide a set of steps we can use to replicate the issue, and make as many as you need.):

Step 1:

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**Author:** ![konrad\_k](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/konrad_k/32/4643_2.png) [@konrad\_k](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/konrad_k)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2021, 4:24pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/missing-observation/27250/2 "2021-10-17T16:24:08Z")

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These observations don’t seem to exist anymore.

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**Author:** ![bouteloua](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/bouteloua/32/1180_2.png) [@bouteloua](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/bouteloua)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2021, 5:40pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/missing-observation/27250/3 "2021-10-17T17:40:43Z")

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I get this error when the observer deleted their observation after my Identify page has loaded.

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**Author:** ![fluffyinca](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/fluffyinca/32/10786_2.png) [@fluffyinca](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/fluffyinca)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2021, 6:30pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/missing-observation/27250/4 "2021-10-17T18:30:13Z")

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This has happened to me too. See [my thread here](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/unable-to-add-id-to-certain-observations/15186).

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**Author:** ![marina\_gorbunova](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/marina_gorbunova/32/31454_2.png) [@marina\_gorbunova](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/marina_gorbunova)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2021, 6:55pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/missing-observation/27250/5 "2021-10-17T18:55:19Z")

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I only had such errors when obserations were deleted.

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**Author:** ![bouteloua](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/bouteloua/32/1180_2.png) [@bouteloua](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/bouteloua)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2021, 2:22pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/missing-observation/27250/6 "2021-11-14T14:22:06Z")

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