{"id":6127,"date":"2015-09-29T12:00:34","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T11:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6127"},"modified":"2016-09-18T13:18:03","modified_gmt":"2016-09-18T12:18:03","slug":"recovering-data-after-garmin-crashed-whilst-saving-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/09\/recovering-data-after-garmin-crashed-whilst-saving-activity.htm","title":{"rendered":"Recovering data after Garmin crashed whilst saving activity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday was a beautiful day. Unfortunately I spent most of it in my home office but I did manage to get out on the bike for a quick ride before sunset (the first time I’ve worked at home in weeks, with a correspondingly low occurrence of exercise on a work day…). \u00a0Unfortunately,\u00a0when I got home, my\u00a0Garmin 810 cycle computer<\/a> froze whilst saving my ride.<\/p>\n

It actually needed a reset (holding the lap and power buttons together for about 5 seconds) before I could get it to respond at all but\u00a0my biggest concern was whether my ride data had been lost (if it’s not on Strava, it didn’t happen).<\/p>\n

The Garmin Connect app on my phone wouldn’t upload the ride, so I tried installing Garmin Express\u00a0on a PC. \u00a0It decided that there was a file on my device that couldn’t be uploaded. Sadly, that file was the data from last night’s ride.<\/p>\n

\"Garmin<\/p>\n

I ignored Garmin Express’s offer to remove the file and, thanks to Chesilboy’s post on the Garmin forums<\/a>, I managed to rescue some of the data.<\/p>\n

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  1. First, I connected the Garmin to my PC and navigated to \\Garmin\\Activities.<\/li>\n
  2. There, I located\u00a0the .FIT\u00a0file for the ride and copied it to somewhere safe.<\/li>\n
  3. Next, I uploaded the .FIT file to Strava.<\/li>\n
  4. Strava read the data,\u00a0warning me that the file was damaged, possibly truncated and that some of the ride would be lost<\/a>. Importantly though, it would use the data that could be read (as it happens, almost all of my ride – only missing the last\u00a01.5\u00a0kilometres).<\/li>\n
  5. At this point, I could export a GPX file and import it to Garmin Connect, but\u00a0I’m not really that bothered about\u00a0my records there (I find the site\u00a0clunky and unreliable and\u00a0I only really use it to get my data to Strava<\/a>).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    As Chesilboy notes, shame on\u00a0Garmin for a) not keeping the data safe (why not write it throughout the activity) and b) actually offering to delete it! Thank goodness Strava is better at data processing!
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