Is anyone else seeing this? Since Garmin Express updated to 7.29.3.0 on my Mac, beyond having to long press on the Tiles to launch any of them like Music (as reported in a few other threads), podcast syncs to my epix Pro fail. Garmin Express says "Storage limit reached" or "Error sending Files", but the watch has more than 20 GB free.
What's going on
I went through the Garmin Express logs and connected to the watch directly with libmtp:
- Garmin Express creates a folder for each episode on the watch (Podcasts/<show>/<episode>), then fails to find it: "Folder not found: ... Path not found: Podcasts/Acquired/Seinfeld".
- The folders really are on the watch, just empty. Storage is fine.
- Copying an episode into that folder directly works, and it plays on the watch.
So the problem is in Garmin Express, not your watch or its storage. It happens with any episode title, and deleting and re-downloading episodes doesn't help. I've reported it to Garmin support.
Workaround (Mac and Apple Podcasts)
I maintain a free script, fixPodcastMetadata, that fixes the episode titles Apple Podcasts saves. It now also copies your downloaded episodes to the watch itself:
1. Download your episodes in Apple Podcasts.
2. Plug in the watch.
3. Paste this into Terminal:
python3 -c "$(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mcoliver/fixPodcastMetadata/main/fixPodcastMetadata.py)"
Garmin Express has to be closed while it copies, and the script will offer to quit it for you. It installs what it needs on the first run and skips episodes that are already on the watch. This script also updates the metadata so your podcasts show the right title and author which has been a bug for at least 4 years. Source: https://github.com/mcoliver/fixPodcastMetadata
Tested on an epix Pro 47mm (software 27.18), Garmin Express 7.29.3.0 and macOS 27.0.1. If you try it with a different watch, please reply and say how it went.
