(I haven’t posted this under bug reports because the list of questions there doesn’t exactly suit this.) On two separate occasions so far, I have noticed that a handful of my observations go missing. This seems to have nothing to do with the device, browser or platform I’m accessing iNat from. It’s…

could your missing observation be this one: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/102703460 ? the location and date fit your description. it was once identified as Herviella yatsui but is no longer identified as such. you can search for observations with particular identifications using the ident…

[image] ajamalabad: certain old observations don’t show up when I search for them can you provide some details about the missing observations? the more information you provide, the easier it will be to try to figure out what could be wrong. when did you upload the observation? what was the ob…

[image] ajamalabad: certain old observations might it be a taxonomy change?

I wondered this too as I was going through to see what I had uploaded from a certain area before uploading anything else. I’ve had some where I swore I had already uploaded that observation, but it wasn’t there. I just uploaded ones that I thought I had, but couldn’t find again. Maybe they actually …

[image] naturegirlkh: Maybe they actually did disappear? it will be unreasonably difficult to even try to figure this out unless you can provide more information. see my post above.

Could they be marked cultivated nd you’re searching within verifiable? Without specifics it’s unreal to answer.

The reason I don’t give more information is because I don’t have it. That is why I said I thought I had uploaded and just re uploaded. Seeing that someone else had a similar issue is the only reason I said anything. Because maybe I started to upload and then didn’t finish. Mine wouldn’t be cultivat…

[image] naturegirlkh: I thought I had uploaded and just re uploaded which is the (re)uploaded observation? knowing taxon, location, observed date, etc., it may be possible to look at old copies of the database to see if there might be another previous version of the observation.

Today I noticed that an observation of Herviella yatsui from Mumbai, India has gone missing. I must have uploaded it about a year ago. I don’t know if there’s a way to verify that it was uploaded, other than my word for it (it was the first iNat record for that species in the region, and I’m quite s…

Thamnophis cyrtopsis from Yecora, MX Piaya cayana from Costa Rica Crax rubra from Costa Rica a few from that Costa Rica trip actually. Merops viridis from Kinabatangan, Malaysia The fact it was a chunk of them is why I thought I started uploading and then maybe didn’t finish and that was why I …

Ah, indeed it is. My bad! Thank you.

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