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Empty FIT file

8776991 over 5 years ago

A walk that was recording for over 2 hours has now come up with a FIT file that says it is empty

How does that happen?

Anyone any ideas?

Thanks

0 seilogramp over 5 years ago

Is this the error you're seeing when trying a manual upload to Garmin Connect import data page?

0 8776991 over 5 years ago in reply to seilogramp

No it says

“We don’t support the file type you tried to import”

I have experienced a malformed fit file before for a marathon and assumed the same thing had happened but when trying to upload there is 0 KB

0 seilogramp over 5 years ago in reply to 8776991

Yes, I see that was one I fixed 3 months ago. We can try to see if this recent fit file indeed has zero data and see if there is anything to repair. Just zip it and attach to this thread.

0 8776991 over 5 years ago in reply to seilogramp

3 months ago that was my first marathon data, you don’t understand how devastated I was losing that, so grateful to you for last time.

This times it isn’t so much of a big deal!

I tried to upload via Dropbox but it says

unable to upload, empty files cannot be uploaded

How do I zip it?

0 8776991 over 5 years ago in reply to 8776991

3056.New Compressed (zipped) Folder.zip

0 seilogramp over 5 years ago in reply to 8776991

Yep, nothing there.

8776991 said:
How does that happen?

Did you record the activity normally with a Start, Stop, then Save? Are there any other fit files in the \GARMIN\ACTIVITY folder on your Forerunner 35?

0 8776991 over 5 years ago in reply to seilogramp

Yes a whole list before and one after, with various sizes. The walk yesterday was uploaded without a problem.

Strange.

Not to worry. Thank you for looking.

0 8776991 over 5 years ago in reply to seilogramp

I paused it, and when i went to resume, the watch was at the main screen. Normally when I have left it on pause too long the autosave counts down from 30 seconds but the watch will buzz to notify the countdown but to be honest i don't recall that this happened so maybe just lost the data while it was paused. This has never happened before.

0 trux over 5 years ago in reply to 8776991

8776991 said:
Thank you for looking.

It wasn't even necessary sending the file It is exactly zero bytes long, hence indeed empty.

0 seilogramp over 5 years ago in reply to 8776991

8776991 said:
Yes a whole list before and one after

Perhaps you should clear those out of the folder \GARMIN\ACTIVITY.