I tried to upload an improvement to my first map a few minutes ago but needed to change something so I backed out on the upload, went to upload it again and it just says "map already exists" I can't seem to find any help threads that have a similar issue so I'm just very confused. the string it gave me was be82418d0616632cfcffd0251d852bf3 if that helps in any way.

Did you try accidentally upload exactly same file? TMX checks if the exactly same exists already in database, so that sounds a likely option to me at least.

I see you now have two maps bonkus and bonkus V2 there, so I guess it worked in the end?

I ended up moving one block and then reuploading so it worked in the end but it was just really confusing. I didn't upload the map and it's not on my profile but TMX says it already exists because it was partially uploaded :/

Hmm yeah, maybe it made it into database but not to your profile then.

most likely. either way it worked out in the end. was just frustrating cuz I had to spend another 30 minutes getting my AT re-validated because I drove a nutty time