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Uplod Feature in Modern Version of Garmin Connect

Former Member over 11 years ago

I don't know why the upload feature has been removed from the modern version of Connect, or why a manual upload feature can't be included with Express for that matter???

What will I do when activities on my device don't automatically upload to Connect? This has happened a good few times already and the only way I can get them off my device and onto Connect is by manually uploading them using the 'upload' option. If the option to manually upload files is taken away from Connect it will make things very difficult as if it doesn't upload a workout automatically it blocks all future workouts subsequent to that from being uploaded.

Also there are occasions where I will use a different device and upload the .gpx file to Connect to keep all my workouts in one place. Removing the manual upload takes this option away from me.

All in all I think removing the manual upload feature from the modern version of Connect is a big mistake and one that should be rectified immediately.

0 travis.vitek over 11 years ago

The manual upload feature is there already. Click the three horizontal bars icon on the left, then click Activities. Click the Import link to the top-right corner of the activities table. Now click Choose File and browse to the file you want to manually upload. Select it, and click Open in the selection dialog. Now click Upload activities from file.

Travis

0 Former Member over 11 years ago

Thanks very much.

That works for files stored on my computer but I am still at a loss as to how to extract files from my device which were not automatically uploaded.

0 travis.vitek over 11 years ago

Garmin Express should download the files from your device to a directory on your computer. Once the files are stored locally, Garmin Express will attempt to upload them to Garmin Connect. Provided there is nothing wrong with the files themselves, you should be able to manually upload them. On windows computers, the directory is nested within C:\ProgramData\Garmin.

If you can't upload the file, there is a pretty good chance that it is corrupt and you'd need to repair the file so that you can upload it.

0 Former Member over 11 years ago

That is certainly the theory but I am finding that this is not what happens in practice.

What has happened to me is that sometimes the files have not automatically uploaded to Garmin Connect even though the data transfer screen has appeared on my device and the process looks like it has been completed.

In these situations I have used the upload button and connected to my device manually to take the files off it that way. The files have appeared on Garmin Connect no problem. The files uploaded in this manned are fully readable on Garmin Connect without having to repair them or do anything else to them. This leads me to believe that the files were not corrupted or otherwise damaged.

0 travis.vitek over 11 years ago

FYI, the process you are talking about is how people used to upload activities to 3rdparty services such as Strava or RunWithGPS. The tool that was used to do this was the Garmin Communicator Plugin. That plugin is no longer being supported by Garmin. If you want to manually upload your files, you have to manually upload (described by me above) the files in the Garmin device directory (C:\ProgramData\Garmin\GarminConnect\{DeviceId}\Upload\FIT_TYPE_4 on my Windows 8 PC).

That said, I did just notice that Garmin Express 3.2.4.0 is no longer putting the .fit extension on the file names in that directory so you may have to add it to get the manual upload tool to accept them. I have no idea why Garmin would do that other than to make it difficult to manually upload the files (either to Garmin Connect or to other 3rdparty services).

Travis