# Dataset can't be fully downloaded (random number of fewer images in download) **URL:** \ **Category:** 🛠️ Feature Reqs\ **Tags:** bugs\ **Created:** [January 25, 2026, 10:17pm UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/dataset-cant-be-fully-downloaded-random-number-of-fewer-images-in-download/11753 "2026-01-25T22:17:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MMFL](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discuss.roboflow.com/mmfl/32/8980_2.png) [@MMFL](https://discuss.roboflow.com/u/MMFL)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2026, 10:17pm UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/dataset-cant-be-fully-downloaded-random-number-of-fewer-images-in-download/11753/1 "2026-01-25T22:17:58Z")
Hello all, I hope this gets fixed quickly, as it literally was working less than 24 hours ago. I have two datasets of around 7k images each: lm/t2swir7kend-2 and lm/t2\_s2\_swir\_0\_7k . I have tried to export my dataset after generating it. When it comes to the zip, I get random “chunks” of that dataset; this is reflected also in your “view all images” section of the version just created. Example: ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/roboflow1/original/2X/f/f96e5be8a75aeae33185e0ff15e276e7bd5b7b77.png) You can see “train: 6290”, same as “dataset” size on the left, but effectively “1857 total images”, than another time 3700, another time 2k etc, completely randomic. I have tried to duplicate, create instance segmentation project instead of object detection, whatever. This resulted in a very big loss of time and a very big loss of credits on my account unfortunately. I hope a solution can be found as the re-carefully manually labelled images are now stuck on my workspace. Thank you in advance for any kind of help! ---
**Author:** ![Matthew\_Wade](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discuss.roboflow.com/matthew_wade/32/6302_2.png) [@Matthew\_Wade](https://discuss.roboflow.com/u/Matthew_Wade)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2026, 2:23am UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/dataset-cant-be-fully-downloaded-random-number-of-fewer-images-in-download/11753/4 "2026-01-26T02:23:14Z")
I am also having this issue as well as many others it appears. I made a post where you can see others having this issue. It worked fine 1/24 but the next version from 1/25 started to have this issue. ---
**Author:** ![Samuel\_G](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discuss.roboflow.com/samuel_g/32/8985_2.png) [@Samuel\_G](https://discuss.roboflow.com/u/Samuel_G)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2026, 3:41am UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/dataset-cant-be-fully-downloaded-random-number-of-fewer-images-in-download/11753/5 "2026-01-26T03:41:41Z")
I have the same issue. I guess the deduplication is malfunctioning. I tried multiple times (spent money) and every time I got a different number of images in the downloaded dataset. ---
**Author:** ![MMFL](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discuss.roboflow.com/mmfl/32/8980_2.png) [@MMFL](https://discuss.roboflow.com/u/MMFL)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2026, 10:12am UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/dataset-cant-be-fully-downloaded-random-number-of-fewer-images-in-download/11753/6 "2026-01-26T10:12:09Z")
yeah agree, I lost something like 3 credits in this, I hope it gets fixed as soon as they figure out. it went literally to this in less than 24 hours ---
**Author:** ![RickPaddock](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discuss.roboflow.com/rickpaddock/32/8990_2.png) [@RickPaddock](https://discuss.roboflow.com/u/RickPaddock)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2026, 1:17pm UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/dataset-cant-be-fully-downloaded-random-number-of-fewer-images-in-download/11753/7 "2026-01-26T13:17:37Z")
I have exact same issue. 1265 images in dataset, but only about 400-600 being downloaded. ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/roboflow1/original/2X/c/ca44ab717e9c9c23087b14b2f679e06dd6af1e95.png) ---
**Author:** ![Ford](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discuss.roboflow.com/ford/32/7747_2.png) [@Ford](https://discuss.roboflow.com/u/Ford)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2026, 12:33am UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/dataset-cant-be-fully-downloaded-random-number-of-fewer-images-in-download/11753/8 "2026-01-27T00:33:20Z")
Good evening, My name is Ford and I’m a Support Engineer at Roboflow. Thank you for flagging this issue, and we apologize for the inconvenience this has caused. We identified an issue causing only a fraction of images to download when exporting dataset versions. We have deployed a fix for this issue. To apply the fix, please generate a new dataset version. Please let us know in this thread if you’re still experiencing incomplete downloads after generating a new dataset version, and we are happy to help further. Again, we apologize for the inconvenience this issue has caused, and thank you for your patience and understanding! ---
**Author:** ![MMFL](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discuss.roboflow.com/mmfl/32/8980_2.png) [@MMFL](https://discuss.roboflow.com/u/MMFL)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2026, 8:30am UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/dataset-cant-be-fully-downloaded-random-number-of-fewer-images-in-download/11753/9 "2026-01-27T08:30:13Z")
Hello @Ford , fixed on my side! Thanks.