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Accidentally discarded activity

Several times I have discarded an activity accidentally. I stop an activity and then somehow manage to accidentally do two taps and then my activity is discarded. Is it possible to retrive this?
As Garmin uses fat32 file system, then I used restore programs and managed to to get this file (.fit), but uploading to garmin connect does not work (file not suitable).
Is there any way to retrive discarded acitvity?

In general Garmin could automatically save every activity and could offer deleting them later, not immediately after activity.

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0 seilogramp over 3 years ago in reply to JedOber

No data, no timestamps. Sorry.

0 JedOber over 3 years ago in reply to seilogramp

Thanks for trying! I think the trick is if you have lost an activity to try and recover it before you start another on the same day.

0 5514330 over 3 years ago

@seilogramp Any chance you could rescue this one for me?

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tETRG-Atnoaiq_x7-lGDh3f7f8PHxqnR/view?usp=sharing

I tried myself with the file repair tool. At one stage I got `Subscript out of range`, then after a few retries it output it as a 28,000 run!
It was about 13km.

0 seilogramp over 3 years ago in reply to 5514330

I need access to your file. Thanks.

0 5514330 over 3 years ago in reply to seilogramp

Sorry, done.

I've recovered stuff before without resorting to this. Was on my morning run this morning but had to attend to a wildlife emergency on my way back. I hit pause, but by the time I was ready to resume about 40 mins later there was no trace of my paused activity on my watch.

0 seilogramp over 3 years ago in reply to 5514330

After removing the obviously erroneous bits (strange dates, coordinates, timestamps), it ended up being less than 1K. Common issue with a deleted/recovered activity.

As it is, 29K of the 33K file was corrupted and could not be repaired.

7776._6472840-fixed.fit

If you have any other fit files around that same time in the \GARMIN\ACTIVTITY folder, there is a chance these are also partial files which could be pieced together to make a whole activity.

0 5514330 over 3 years ago in reply to seilogramp

Yep, so all of these are from the morning. Started run around 7:30 GMT if that's of any use.

drive.google.com/.../view

0 4294504 over 3 years ago

Hi,

I followed the steps to recover today's ride, but the file seems to be corrupt:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/cbwdzwp8uk9j7vz/2021-06-22-17-32-30.fit.zip?dl=0

Can anybody help out with its repair? Thank you very much

0 seilogramp over 3 years ago in reply to 4294504

Not seeing any GPS data - 2021.2021-06-22-17-32-30-fixed.fit

0 4294504 over 3 years ago in reply to seilogramp

Thanks anyways!