Accidentally discarded activity

Question

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.

seilogramp · Accepted Answer

First, make sure your activity is not actually on the watch. Connect the watch using a usb cable to your computer and open the associated \Garmin drive from Windows file explorer or the finder app on a Mac. 
 There are 3rd party recovery tools that scan your watch for deleted files that typically cannot be viewed from the watch or file explorer. 
 For Windows: 
 
 Recuva 
 Bitwar 
 Active@ Undelete 
 Active@ Recovery 
 Disk Drill 
 Data Rescue 5 
 Photorec 
 Testdisk 
 
 For macOS: 
 
 DMDE 
 Bitwar 
 Disk Drill 
 Data Rescue 5 
 Photorec 
 Testdisk 
 
 Depending how long ago you discarded the activity, you may or may not have success, as the file will eventually be overwritten by new data. Use these tools at your own risk, as some of these tools can be a vector for scams, viruses, etc.

Former Member · Answer

Recovering worked for me with https://dmde.com/ on Mac. The user interface is quite bad but it works. 
 
 On Mac select the device (/dev/rdisk2 if your Garmin device is the only attached external device) 
 then open it and Navigate to the GARMIN/garmin/activities where you should see your lost activity marked as deleted 
 check that lost activity 
 click on the recover icon in the top menubar 
 select a folder where the file should be restored 
 Upload that file to garmin connect

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