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Edge 530 deleted FIT files from the device

In the "Activities" folder I had files from 2020 to today, but when I checked the folder today I noticed that everything but the 2022 files are gone.

Did the 530 delete them? Move them to another folder?

I like to manually backup all my fit files, and thats what I wanted to do today when I noticed that every fit from 2020 and 2021 are missing. I manually upload my fit files to Strava/TP, and I know that those files were there just a few days ago.

What could have happened?

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Garmin-Eiliko over 2 years ago +1 verified

Mijaeus

You can retrieve your data from your Garmin Connect account from previously recorded activities. You can export the original .FIT using the directions in the link below. If the .FIT files are not…

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0 Garmin-Eiliko over 2 years ago

Mijaeus

You can retrieve your data from your Garmin Connect account from previously recorded activities. You can export the original .FIT using the directions in the link below. If the .FIT files are not in the storage, there is not a way to recover them.

How Do I Export Data Out of Garmin Connect?

0 Mijaeus over 2 years ago in reply to Garmin-Eiliko

Yeah, I am not going to download 500+ files one by one.

Any idea why the device suddenly decided to delete 2 years worth of fit files?

0 trux over 2 years ago in reply to Mijaeus

Mijaeus said:
Yeah, I am not going to download 500+ files one by one.

You can request a full data dump at Garmin International | Account | Data Management | Data Export

Mijaeus said:
Any idea why the device suddenly decided to delete 2 years worth of fit files?

Full storage, or maximum number of files reached, perhaps? Once synced to the server, they are not really needed on the device.

Mijaeus said:
I like to manually backup all my fit files

I does not look like you like it that much, if you did not do it since 2020

0 e7andy over 2 years ago in reply to Mijaeus

From what I can read in the forum the max number of stored activity files are 200. I don't know if that is correct or has changed, but that number keeps popping up in the discussions.

0 trux over 2 years ago in reply to e7andy

It may be different from device to device. I did not find any limitation in the number of FIT files, but for example at Enduro, they claim the following, and it will be the case for many other devices as well:

User Data File Limitations of the Enduro | Garmin Customer Support

Activities: limited only by storage space available on the watch, oldest activities will automatically be deleted when additional storage space is needed for new activities