Hi all,
From October 2018 I had issues with my Forerunner 235 that I can't update with Garmin Express on Mac OSX High Sierra 10.13.6 and Windows 7. I was able to sync up the activities but not update the software. I contacted Italian support several times by email or phone but they always replied with useless procedures. My impression was that they didn't interest to solve my issue.
I solved the issue and I put it here because I noticed a lot of people experienced it recently.
Garmin Express logs files are under:
/Users/<user>/Library/Application Support/Garmin/Express/Logs
In particular, in Service_xxxx.xx.xx.txt I find out that Garmin Express was trying to write on a read-only file system. Then I checked on Finder->Garmin Volume with right click and the end of the box I find out it was read-only. This explained why I was able to read activities but no update software. The same occurred on Windows 7 (and this is even stranger).
To fix the problem I simply opened a Mac Terminal and gave the following command:
sudo mount -u -w /Volumes/GARMIN
Once the volume became read/write I was able to update the software successfully.
Now, Forerunner 235 has a FAT16 filesystem and I do not understand why suddenly Mac is not able to mount read/write anymore. Once I update the software on the watch I tried to disconnect and reconnect it to check if it was mounted read/write but it is always mounted read-only.
This occurs also on Windows 7 (I know on Windows 10 this is a known issue).
Anyone on this forum knows why Forerunner 235 is mounted on Mac and Windows 7 as a read-only filesystem? How I can avoid it?
PS
I started having this problem from October 2018, before it always worked.