I’m not actually sure if this is a bug or me doing something weird, but I’ve been using iNat heavily for the past 2ish years and it only just started happening this morning. When I upload pictures some of them automatically fill in species IDs; for a while they were all salamander chytrids and for …

Yeah, the file name included an “ADA” in it, and I could replicate the issue. Two proposals to prevent this particular issue from happening the future: only use currently accepted scientific names for file name matching, and don’t try to match file names when duplicating an obs. Resonable?

Observations uploading with random species

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bouteloua Closed January 28, 2020, 2:29am 21

closing since it was working as intended; see also https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/add-observation-automatically-tagged-my-observations-with-incorrect-names-based-on-photo-filenames/8203/23

Topic		Replies	Views
Salamander Chytrid (Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans) appearing as an ID on wide range of observations General	4	473	February 25, 2020
Strange IDs Appearing - Wrong Animal Bug Reports web	6	457	October 28, 2023
Parsing identifications from file name General	8	880	February 25, 2020
Species count seems off Bug Reports	7	486	January 27, 2024
Incorrect IDs added based on photo filenames Bug Reports	2	573	December 27, 2019

Observations uploading with random species

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