Platform: Website Browser: Chrome URLs of any relevant observations or pages: inaturalist.org/observations/55298548 Screenshots of what you are seeing: [Screenshot (5)] ![Screenshot (6)|690x388, 100%] [Screenshot (4)] (upload://2rXkKKKV22soDCqjqlihHyjiWO7.jpeg) [Screenshot (6)] [Screenshot (7)] D…

That sometimes happens when an observation was removed by the observer. When I go to the observations for the user in your first screenshot , there are currently no observations of plants in pink buckets, so it looks as though that particular one was deleted. I didn’t check the other, where the us…

For the URL https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/55298548 , did you find that URL by: (1) looking at the user’s observations? (2) at the time of the error, if you clicked the Unknown on the pop-up ID modal did it bring you to that page? If the former, it’s possible they deleted the observatio…

I was just able to add an ID to https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/55298548 I don’t see any delete records for the user in the past week.

@fluffyinca , it looks like the second example is an error as reported.

I found the URL by clicking the Unknown on the pop-up ID modal, not by looking at the user’s observations. (I was afraid if I left the page it would disappear.)

This pop up shows for me frequently and I always took it for a sign of a poor internet connection. Usually when I try again it works fine.

I tried multiple times on both, it just kept doing it. Also, I could successfully ID a different observation, then return to the problem one and it still wouldn’t work. I have never had any internet problems, so I don’t think it’s that.

Was IDing obs yesterday and it happened a few times. Now today it happens with all obs of a user who does mega bulk upload. Probably related to bulk upload?

Bulk uploading could be the issue for the user you found, but I don’t think it is the root cause for everyone. In the OP’s non-deleted example, the user’s observations show 5 observations added on August 3rd, but they are a few minutes apart, and all show they were added via the Android app (I thin…

The same happens to me several times on random observations. For me it helps to reload the page.

Unable to add ID to certain observations

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fluffyinca August 19, 2020, 1:34pm 15

I have had a problem with that:

https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/unable-to-resume-creating-observations-when-laptop-was-in-sleep-mode/14689

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Unable to add ID to certain observations

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