Platform (Android, iOS, Website): Website Browser, if a website issue (Firefox, Chrome, etc) : issue happens on both Opera and Chrome Screenshots of what you are seeing (instructions for taking a screenshot on computers and mobile devices: https://www.take-a-screenshot.org/ ): [image] Description…

hmmmm… not sure. is there anything that didn’t complete yet on the list? if everything on the list completed, then i’m not sure how to troubleshoot further without actually doing some debugging on your machine. did you already try to restart your machine and see if that solves things?

I restarted my computer, that didn’t work Only one thing on the list is not finished, so presumably this is the root of the issue? [image]

So I just tried uploading a different batch of photos compared to the previous batch, and they are loading now, but glacially slowly compared to normal [image]

okay… so request to photos might be where the issue is. for each photo, i think there’s a post request to iNat to create the photo in the system. if the request is pending, i think that means it’s still running, but it’s just taking a long time. i can only guess there might be something between your…

[image] pisum: i can only guess there might be something between your browser and iNat’s servers that’s causing things to process really slowly. unfortunately this only seems to happen for some random photos (i.e. that they load slowly, but they are indeed loading at all); a batch I tried las…

[image] thebeachcomber: I’ve also got the issue on both opera and chrome these are both based on Chromium. so i wouldn’t expect there to be a difference necessarily, even if the problem originated in your browser. if Firefox also exhibited the same thing, then i think you could definitely rul…

[image] pisum: do you still see any pending requests to photos or other requests that haven’t completed? I still have this single pending ‘photos’ item [image] while also noting that the individual ‘photos’ items that appeared for the previous batch that did load (the ones that took >1 min…

just tried uploading the photos on my laptop instead of my desktop, and the issue persists, so it’s not my PC that’s the issue

are you using Windows? if so, open up Task Manager >> More Details > Processes > (sort descending by Network) while you’re uploading (and stuck on a pending photos post request), and see if you can see how fast you’re uploading your files (on your browser process).

Upload screen stuck on 'Uploading 1 of X photos...'

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thebeachcomber January 20, 2022, 2:17am 21

tried things now with another new photo batch, back to not loading at all. New error messages now though

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Upload screen stuck on 'Uploading 1 of X photos...'

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