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Import runs

Former Member over 6 years ago

Can runs be imported to the Vivoactive 3 Music?

If you want to import existing runs to your VA3 (from a previous Garmin watch?), it is possible, although they won’t affect your performance stats or totals. (So I’m not sure how useful this is for you.)

If you can get your hands on the original FIT files (*):
1) Use USB cable to connect VA3 to PC. If you have a Mac you need Android File Transfer: https://www.android.com/filetransfer/
2) Copy FIT files to the \Garmin\activity folder on the watch

(*) There are a couple of ways to do this:
- Use the Garmin Connect website to “Export Original” activity file, one at a time. This will take forever
or
- Use a script to bulk download activities
https://github.com/pe-st/garmin-connect-export
- request all your data from Garmin under the GDPR. This may take a few days (?), apparently:
https://www.garmin.com/en-US/account/datamanagement/exportdata/

Personally, I would use the script.

If you just want to sync runs from another service to GC, I recommend https://tapiriik.com/