Express 7.18.0 deletes all activities

Why should we do tambourine dances with connect app ??

Garmin have to deal with this and sort this out - no ?

Same here. It does it on all three of my Garmin units. Edge 530, 820 & Forerunner 920XT. I've been saying it for years now, their software staff are the descendants of Moe, Larry, Curly & Shemp.

Confirmed also for Garmin Edge 1030 +.
All activities are gone after syncronizing with V 7.18.
Also, all gathered folders (by G Express) on the device showing weird timstamps, dated in the future (2038).

Hence, this problem is easy retrace by Garmin. Why do they ask for screenshots, istead of connecting a device by their own?
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Edit:
even the logfile (C:\ProgramData\Garmin\Logs\Express) tells literally, that GExpress is deleteing the recent.fit files:

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2023-08-28 12:19:45.2087 | 29 | I | File to transfer segment_list.fit -> segment_list.fit (type FIT_TYPE_35)
2023-08-28 12:19:45.2087 | 29 | I | File to transfer 2023-08-27-10-01-19.fit -> 2023-08-27-10-01-19.fit (type FIT_TYPE_4)
2023-08-28 12:19:45.2087 | 29 | I | File to transfer 2023-08-27-19-44-45.fit -> 2023-08-27-19-44-45.fit (type FIT_TYPE_4)
2023-08-28 12:19:45.2087 | 29 | I | File to transfer 2023-08-27-20-27-00.fit -> 2023-08-27-20-27-00.fit (type FIT_TYPE_4)
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2023-08-28 12:19:47.3894 | 34 | I | Deleted File #2023-08-27-10-01-19.fit (2023-08-27-10-01-19.fit)
2023-08-28 12:19:47.3894 | 34 | I | Deleted File #2023-08-27-19-44-45.fit (2023-08-27-19-44-45.fit)
2023-08-28 12:19:47.3934 | 34 | I | Deleted File #2023-08-27-20-27-00.fit (2023-08-27-20-27-00.fit)
2023-08-28 12:19:47.3934 | 34 | I | Deleted File #D8RK4047.fit (D8RK4047.fit)
2023-08-28 12:19:47.3934 | 34 | I | Deleted File #D8RK4048.fit (D8RK4048.fit)
2023-08-28 12:19:47.3934 | 34 | I | Sync upload Complete for device xxxxxxxx, 2 files uploaded.
2023-08-28 12:19:47.3934 | 26 | I | Sync completed successfully.
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Garmin support ask me for Garmin folder from my device, hopefully they will investigate and find what is going on.

GE 7.18.1 installed. The issue seems to be solved for new files, but unfortunately 7.18.1 doesn't restore the files, which were deletet by GE 7.18 last week. Any chance to get these files back?

Get fit files manually from garmin connect web

Druide said:

Any chance to get these files back?

Not necessarily needed and can even cause issues if you have excessive activities stored on your watch. If you feel the need, I would just download the last weeks' worth of activities.

• Go to Garmin Connect Web
• Open an activity that you want to move to your watch.
• Select the gear icon, then "export original."
• Unzip the file
• With your watch connected to your computer browse to <YourDevice>\Internal Storage\GARMIN\NewFiles and paste each fit file

Rather laborious and not worth the effort, IMO. I would just wait for the files to build back up on the watch.

How about the one that it didn't upload to GCW and deleted? And I lost activity? :( 

But granted that's partly also because of the FR955 16.16 Beta issue, that multisport/swimrun is broken.

maybe try to see if "export your data" works on this garmin website.   www.garmin.com/.../