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 “Repa…

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.

Old Facebook Observations Not Loading?

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JeremyHussell July 5, 2019, 2:06am 2

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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Old Facebook Observations Not Loading?

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