Platform (Android, iOS, Website): Website Browser: Chrome and Firefox URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/upload Screenshots of what you are seeing: Below Description of problem (please provide a set of steps we can use to rep…

not sure exactly what you’re describing here, but it sounds like it could be the same thing as one of these previous bug reports: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/error-when-selecting-multiple-observations-in-the-upload-page-click-and-drag/1770 https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/group-selection-quirks…

I’m describing a situation such as where I click photo 1 and shift-click photo 10, it should highlight 1-10, but instead it highlights something like 1 and 30-40, or 1, 5,7 and 10. Effectively it seems to be incorrectly highlighting the ranges.

do you rearrange your observations in the upload page before you try to shift-click? if so, it sounds like the problem described in the second bug report that i noted above.

This happens to me only after I duplicate an observation.

duplication can have the same effect as reordering because the duplicated observation by default will be placed immediately after the source observation in the upload page. for example, if you create obs A and obs B, and then you duplicate obs A, the dupe A will show up between obs A and obs B. in o…

Shift-click selection on upload page does not function correctly

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silversea_starsong April 24, 2023, 5:20pm 5

Not often, but sometimes. I’ll have to see if it’s replicatable.

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Shift-click selection on upload page does not function correctly

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