# Unable to upload, clone, or fork

**URL:** <https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/unable-to-upload-clone-or-fork/11973>\
**Category:** 🤝  Community Help\
**Created:** [March 23, 2026, 8:48pm UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/unable-to-upload-clone-or-fork/11973 "2026-03-23T20:48:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![casey-harwood](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discuss.roboflow.com/casey-harwood/32/9291_2.png) [@casey-harwood](https://discuss.roboflow.com/u/casey-harwood)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2026, 8:48pm UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/unable-to-upload-clone-or-fork/11973/1 "2026-03-23T20:48:36Z")

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Today, I’ve been running into repeated issues getting images into a new project.

If I try to fork a dataset, it hangs indefinitely on the ‘Copying Images’ step.

If I try to clone the images and annotations, I get a failure message. Sometimes it’s just “images failed to copy.” Sometimes it’s more specific (e.g. Unexpected token ‘I’, “Internal S”… is not valid JSON)

If I try to download the dataset and re-upload with annotations, it hangs on the image upload step.

It seems like there’s a systemic issue right now that’s causing bulk image operations to fail. I’ve had a couple of students share that they’re experiencing the same problems.

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**Author:** ![Bar\_Shimshon](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discuss.roboflow.com/bar_shimshon/32/9024_2.png) [@Bar\_Shimshon](https://discuss.roboflow.com/u/Bar_Shimshon)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2026, 4:45pm UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/unable-to-upload-clone-or-fork/11973/2 "2026-03-27T16:45:24Z")

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Hi casey-harwood,

That’s really frustrating, especially when you have students experiencing the same issues. How many images are you uploading? Is thsi still ongoing for you?

Could you do the following:

1. Open the page you want to debug
2. Right-click → **Inspect**
3. Go to the **Network** tab
4. Check **“Preserve log”** (important)
5. Click the **clear (🚫)** button to start fresh
6. Refresh the page (Cmd+R / Ctrl+R)
7. Reproduce the issue
8. Right-click inside the network panel → **Save all as HAR with content**

Also try smaller batch operations, as a workaround, you might try uploading images in smaller batches (10–20 at a time) rather than bulk operations, though this won’t help with the fork/clone features.

Thank you,

Bar Shimshon

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/roboflow1/original/1X/bb6edbfa56d0cf2ee603f061e9e09103502cc8cc.png) [@system](https://discuss.roboflow.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2026, 4:45pm UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/unable-to-upload-clone-or-fork/11973/3 "2026-04-17T16:45:42Z")

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Closed on April 17, 2026, 4:45pm UTC

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