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?

Bug Reports

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

Topic		Replies	Views
No image, only "Processing...". Failed upload? Bug Reports	4	443	October 19, 2019
Photos disappeared from Research Grade observation Bug Reports	18	987	July 25, 2020
Problem with photos General	9	449	September 12, 2022
Radioactive Observation Thumbnails Bug Reports	12	785	April 17, 2019
Two problems with 2013 observations -- what to do? General	8	393	March 23, 2021

Old Facebook Observations Not Loading?

Related Topics