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Corrupted FIT file - Garmin Edge 500 - Bike

Hi everyone,

I changed my Mac recently and went for my first ride of the season. When I plugged in my Edge 500, it seemed to be resetup and my last ride never showed up. I also lost all my activity history after June 2019 on my Garmin device, for some reason. I still have it in my account nevertheless, so that's not that big of a deal, though my totals on my Garmin are now all skewed :(

After hours of searching and trying, I was able to use testdisk to finally recover the fit file. Unfortunately, it seems to be corrupted, and nothing I've tried online has made the trick... I was hoping somebody here could help as the best tool other there seems to be the Fit File Repair Tool, but is only available on Windows.

I've attached my corrupted file. I really hope someone can help as I tried a new route and really wanted to dig into some specifics to prepare for this new season!

Thank you so much everyone. Have a great day!

Mike

2022-04-18-12-59-19.fit.zip

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seilogramp over 3 years ago +1

I was only able to recover about 8km. The rest of it was beyond my abilities to repair. Perhaps can have a look.

2022-04-18-12-59-19-fixed.fit

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0 seilogramp over 3 years ago

I was only able to recover about 8km. The rest of it was beyond my abilities to repair. Perhaps can have a look.

2022-04-18-12-59-19-fixed.fit

0 Mikechaos over 3 years ago in reply to seilogramp

It did look really bad when I was inspecting it... I really don't know what happened :'(

Thanks for trying, it is greatly appreciated nonetheless!

0 Former Member over 3 years ago in reply to Mikechaos

solved

0 Mikechaos over 3 years ago in reply to Former Member

Hi,

Thank you so much for trying. It was at least enough to upload something to Garmin connect and I edited the other stats manually.
I decided to reproduce the ride on google maps, for what it's worth with the data you were able to recover, it'll be better than nothing!
This was the corrupted ride: https://goo.gl/maps/QBTsQ28jG5tFYkx37
2:48:00 for about 62km. At least it was a warmup ride! There is always a silver lining! haha

Thank you so much for your help. I would be curious to better understand how you were able to use the Fit File Tools (as I tried!) to better understand the file (I am a professional developer, but I never really played with Fit data).

Warm regards,

Mike