Old Facebook Observations Not Loading?

Bug Reports
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I’ve been going back through some older observations and started to find some without pics that just say “Processing”. These seem to be photos sourced from Facebook (I didn’t even know that this was a thing on iNat). You can see that they are from FB on the photo info page. If you click on the “Repair broken URLs” link, it returns: “Failed to repair photo: Access token has expired. userwhoever needs to re-link their Facebook account.”

Examples are here:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/303610
https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/376733
and
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/321771
https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/400212

I’ve only seen a few like this so it isn’t a frequent issue in my neck of iNat. But it does pose issues for repeatability (the photos can’t be verified anymore). I couldn’t find any other topics about it on the forum, so thought I would post and see if this has been addressed before…any thoughts?

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Another example has been reported, but the source isn’t Facebook: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/no-image-only-processing-failed-upload/4726

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My understanding is that iNat now saves local copies, but for these older photos there’s nothing that can be done, other than marking as no evidence of organism, if the repair URL fails and the user is unresponsive to comments to upload the missing photos.

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