Recently I put another removable drive in a PC. That drive has (old) Garmin marine charts and street maps (IMG's) on it.
So on three different (and three different versions of Windows) Homeport 2.3.2 (which I know is obsolete) will no longer use those old marine charts. Except for the really old ones installed on HD (per street maps).
On two of the three PC's I "reset" Homeport 2.3.2 and NONE of the charts were recognised (some were beforehand but now the processing bar shows red before the charts disappear). They'd all worked in the past. On the third machine I can still see/select them but get an error message ("An error occurred when attempting to use the <chart name> Chart product") if any are selected. This also happened on the other two machines (before Homeport was "reset").
All removable drives are ok (verified via CHKDSK) and street maps (IMG's) on those drives are recognized and work. Only marine charts don't.
Comments?
PS: I tried a one of the marine charts that was already on the microSD card in my Oregon 600. It worked there. When the Orgeon 600 was put in "mass storage" mode Homeport 2.3.2 saw the loaded marine charts.
PPS: So it seems that the old "put IMG's on a removable drive" no longer works for marine charts but still does for street maps.
PPPS: I found a copy of Homeport 2.2.10 dated 9th November 2015 on archive.org. It has the same issue as above in a WinXP SP3 VM.
PPPPS: Good news. Connecting my (real) Oregon 600 made the marine charts on it work even when disconnected.