i assume 079 would have included these photos:
- https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/285178354
- https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/285178377
- https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/285178435
i assume 080 would have included these photos:
- https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/285178451
- https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/285178470
- https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/285178498
it’s strange to me that two observations would have been created and no longer exist but that their photo records would still exist. just based on my recollection of some testing i’ve done in the past, i don’t think there’s a way through the API to delete observations without also deleting the observation records associated with them (if they are tied only to the deleted observations), unless you first disassociate the photo records from the observations before deleting the observations.
if i didn’t know anything else, it would make more sense to me that the system ran into some sort of error while creating the observation records but never reported the issue back to your upload page somehow. but i guess pleary and iNat staff will have a better understanding, as they can see the logs, etc…
i don’t see anything unusual about these photo records or any of the observation records in the uploaded set. in terms of the sequence of the missing records, they would have been second and third in the set of 27, if ordered by their observation IDs.