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I'm trying to figure out how to view pictures on our Montana and Oregon. I used GSAK's SendImagesToGarmin macro, "grabbed" images from the caches in the filter, then chose "send all grabbed images" and clicked send. It turned out to be 900+ pictures. But I can't figure out how to actually view them on the units. There's nothing in the Photo Viewer app, and I can't see any option on the cache listing (on the GPSr) to view them. And I'm navigating to a cache that I know has photos.

 

Am I missing a step? It's the same on both the Montana and the Oregon, so I'm doing something wrong...

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Am I missing a step? It's the same on both the Montana and the Oregon, so I'm doing something wrong...

 

The pictures show up when you look at the description of a cache. Load your caches, select a cache (that you know has images), open the cache and you'll see the image icon in the left lower corner. tap it and the image viewer opens. You can "swipe" through all images. X closes the viewer and get you back to the listing.

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I'm not seeing that option.

 

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The "GeocachePhotos" folder on the unit has plenty of .jpg files in it, so they're on there...

 

EDIT: Maybe I'm expecting to see the wrong images? I'm thinking that I'd see user-uploaded photos. For example, the cache in the photo above, http://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC3NQQP_sandy-point-sactuary-ri-side, has five photos it the gallery on the cache page... But the cache doesn't have it's own folder in the "GeocachePhotos" folder on the GPSr (No file named "GC3NQQP"). If I'm not loading those pictures onto the GPSr, what photos AM I loading?

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EDIT: Maybe I'm expecting to see the wrong images? I'm thinking that I'd see user-uploaded photos. For example, the cache in the photo above, http://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC3NQQP_sandy-point-sactuary-ri-side, has five photos it the gallery on the cache page... But the cache doesn't have it's own folder in the "GeocachePhotos" folder on the GPSr (No file named "GC3NQQP"). If I'm not loading those pictures onto the GPSr, what photos AM I loading?

 

You only see images included in the listing (spoilers..) NOT images from logs.

You should see a folder x:\garmin\GeocachePhotos\ with subfolders 0....9 and A...Z Those folders also have folders 0....9 and A...Z and those have subfolders with complete GXxxxx codes. I.e. x:\garmin\GeocachePhotos\0\5\GC52H50\ Images in that folder show up when looking at the listing of GC52H50

 

It should look like this:

 

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I've had my Montana for a year and a half and never knew it could do this. Well, I still don't because I'm not getting the image icon on my screen. Is this a feature that was added to the Montana since I got mine? Do I need to update the software? Or is this something that only works with GSAK? I'm trying to look at the pictures for this cache but I get nothing:

 

http://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC3NWPJ_george-bilby

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Ok, I get it now. I thought I was going to see the log photos. Thanks for clearing that up!

 

I haven't tried this but you might copy the log images to their corresponding folder. They should then show up too.

 

It would work, but I'd have to go through each cache and take note of the corresponding photos.

 

I used the "Grab Images" function of GSAK to grab all the log photos, but GSAK just lumps them all into a single folder in the database folder, called, surprisingly, "GrabbedImages." There are 2,000+ images in that folder, and sorting through them would be impossible!

 

I also made a thread on the GSAK forums to see if there was a macro that would pull log photos, but haven't heard anything yet.

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Ok, I get it now. I thought I was going to see the log photos. Thanks for clearing that up!

 

I haven't tried this but you might copy the log images to their corresponding folder. They should then show up too.

 

It would work, but I'd have to go through each cache and take note of the corresponding photos.

 

I used the "Grab Images" function of GSAK to grab all the log photos, but GSAK just lumps them all into a single folder in the database folder, called, surprisingly, "GrabbedImages." There are 2,000+ images in that folder, and sorting through them would be impossible!

 

I also made a thread on the GSAK forums to see if there was a macro that would pull log photos, but haven't heard anything yet.

This is an area where the phone apps really excel. I use my Garmin for all the navigation, but pull out the phone when I want to read prior logs, look for suggestive photos, etc. Before I leave the house, I have the app download the last 30 logs, complete with photos so it's all available offline.

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This is an area where the phone apps really excel. I use my Garmin for all the navigation, but pull out the phone when I want to read prior logs, look for suggestive photos, etc. Before I leave the house, I have the app download the last 30 logs, complete with photos so it's all available offline.

 

I use GDAK which gives me all info on my (Android) tablet that's in my GSAK databases. I only send the latest 20 logs to my GPS but in GSAK/GDAK I may have 100's (depending on the age/founds of a cache).

It's been a long time I needed to see log images though.

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