Locus GC offlinizer didnt work

When the geocache is updated with the Locus Map's built-in "update geocache" command, no attached images are loaded. Then GC Offlinizer loads no images. Only if you use the "update geocache" command from the Geocaching4Locus add-on then GC Offlinizer loads the 2 images. The new GC Offlinizer should cover all images associated with the geocache.

That is not "the whole truth" ;-) As written in my former messages I successfully can load attached images by GC-Offlinizer by setting switch "Download all images via Live API" - if I'm using built-in "update geocache" before. This way i'm preparing all GC-images (internal and attached) for outdoor's offline use since many years... Since Menion has developed GC-Offlinizer - I'm sure he will confirm ;-)

Hi, I think offlinizer is already quite slow for a bigger amount of caches. With the "update". it will be even slower. And updated cache also does not get all images. Only using "Use Live API" checkbox you can get everything. And this option is independent on fact, how old or incomplete data you have. So the solution > use the "Use Live API" and you always have all available images.

Thanks Menion for clarifying. I didn't notice that GC-Offlinizer had been improved somewhen in the past, so that "update geocache" isn't necessary anymore - even if I've loaded the GC via GPX or PQ before. That's great!
So I think there's no need to improve Offlinizer anymore, people just have to make sure that "Use Live API" is ON.

(But maybe an optional load of Gallery images like introduced by Michal Stupka indeed makes sense- but optionally just in low resolution for download speed reason. During Geocaching I sometimes have to open a GC's gallery to search for older "Spoiler" images within a past finders' log if I'm in front of a very difficult to find cache. This is not possible if there's no internet on the Cache's spot, and also more convinient to stay in Locus than to have to open a Webbrowser)

@Menion: I noticed that if I'm deleting a certain Geocache from a folder, as well as deleting all GC-images within data/geocaching and finally even applying "Clear tempory data" => each remains of a Geocache should be deleted.
But if I'm loading the same cache by GPX afterwards (which does not contain any info regarding attached images and log images), and my phone is not connected to Internet, Locus however displays place holders + image names of those images (not the image itself). So it seems image Meta-data is stored in some other place. Where? And is a user able to delete this image meta-data theoretically (not that this is wise - just for curiosity ;-)

Thanks, I'll look at it.

After I've implemented this change and Michal wrote "Implemented" post, I finally understood, what I did 😊. These gallery images are identical images from the logs, nothing more. I did not know it before. Problem: now the app allows to download these gallery images over Offlinizer into persistent data/geocaching directory and the screen with logs, download displayed log images into temporary cache in the app. Two places, same data and complicated to unite it propertly. Screen with logs now do not use these downloaded images ...

Why I wrote this? Just to inform, this is probably not a final solution with "Log images/gallery".

Thanks Menion, we will look forward how Locus improves Geocaching-images :) Maybe you could also take idea https://help.locusmap.eu/topic/37173-geocaching-title-of-images into account to improve positioning of attached images.

This cannot be considered resolved. I'm still experiencing the problem in version 4.36.1.2 as well—on multiple devices running different versions of Android. Nothing else has been changed besides the Locus 4 update.

The “Save Images for Offline Use” checkbox is selected.

The listing contains a spoiler image, labeled as a spoiler.

The cache in Locus was refreshed, and then the Offlinizer was launched.

The Offlinizer doesn’t download anything and instead claims there’s nothing to download.

I can't confirm that on my end (also v4.36.1.2). When I download the cache via a GPX file from gc.com, import it into Locus, and then run the GC Offlinizer (with exactly your settings), three images are loaded: the two from the listing and the one spoiler photo.

I don’t think it should be necessary, but try deleting this cache from your point database, then go to Settings > Backup & Filesystem > Delete Temporary Data > check all boxes and click “Clear.” Restart Locus. This should remove any remaining traces of this cache, and you can import it again cleanly using the GC Offlinizer.

It's not working.

I've now created a completely new, empty database.

I looked for a cache that's far away—one I'm sure I've never downloaded before.

I downloaded the GPX file from Groundspeak and imported it into Locus.

I launched Offlinizer.

Offlinizer claims there are already 3 images and 0 errors.

But Locus only shows the one listing image and not the two spoiler images.

So it obviously either didn’t load them or didn’t save them.

Otherwise, there would be a note about the images in the top-right corner of the icon, or the “Calculated” section on the geocache page would include the entry “Images.”

Please attach a screenshot of the page that opens when you click on “Bilder 3 images.” That's the images-page. The one in your screenshot is the listing-page, which of course just shows the 1 listing image

???

I did—there's no longer a message saying that images are available.

This message is not available since the changes regarding GC-images during the last weeks. And a screenshot of the proper iamge-page I mentioned above is still missing...
And please also have a detailed look at parallel thread: https://help.locusmap.eu/topic/37173-geocaching-title-of-images

"This message is not available since the changes regarding GC-images during the last weeks."

Yeah, that's exactly what I've been saying all along.

"when you click on “Bilder 3 images.”

Where is that supposed to be?

have a look at your screen "Screenshot_20261011-151118.png", there you'll find it left of the smilies of "Logs". More details of the recent changes you'll find in the thread I mentioned before...

Oh man, oh man. That's what happens when things are constantly being changed. You can't go through all the settings and pages of an app after every update to check for changes. I really don't have time for that.

I was already glad to have found the change under “Saved images for online use.” My setting was suddenly gone, and the checkbox was unchecked in the new one.

Oh well, never mind. In any case, they're there now. Probably only until the next restructuring, though. Thanks for the clarification.

Hi Sonny, understand. Added small filter to exclude possible smileys and some internal geocaching images.