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Athlete storage: available storage 1.8MB

JonnyBoy72
over 6 years ago

Hi all,

my new Athlete show only 1.8 MB available storage.

How is this possible? It is brand new and I have not installed anything else on it.

  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 6 years ago

    Yeah when I plug it into Garmin Express and go to Music, it says I have 22GB left. But when I open Garmin Connect on my iPhone, and check out space available for apps and such, it says like 100KB...?

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    0 Former Member over 6 years ago in reply to nmyeti

    I have a Mac and with the Athlete it no longer shows a Garmin Disc like my Fenix 5X does when I plug into my computer

  • 0 over 6 years ago in reply to Former Member

    I think the trash doesn't get emptied on a mac. There were a few other posts on this forum about the same thing. I don't have a mac, but from what i understand it, you are not actually deleting files when you delete files while plugged into a mac. 

  • 0 over 6 years ago

    I don’t have a mac. Any test i can do from a PC to validate what the real available size is?

  • 0 over 6 years ago in reply to Former Member

    Looks like same problem i have. I have downloaded a Spotify playlist with around 20 tracks on the watch and it went through. Still, Garmin connect shows the same available storage than prior to the download. Looks like the app doesn’t report this correctly, so is Garmin IQ.

    i have installed Garmin Express on Windows, and indeed, it shows 21 GB free space.

  • 0 over 6 years ago

    That is normal. It is space for Connect IQ applications: Widgets, Watchfaces, Data fields, Applications, Music app providers (yes, Spotify and Deezer are just 3rd party embedded apps, running on Connect IQ platform). It is so small, because just apps are small too. You can install up to 32 of these items. Usually app can be 50-100 Kilobytes in size, that's enough.

    For music storage you will see available space in Finder/Explorer, it is in Gigabytes.

    Upd: since the beta 3.34 the storage was increased to 4 MB.

  • 0 over 6 years ago in reply to Former Member

    You need to install Android File Transfer to manage your files when using a Mac. This is the same for all the newer devices since the 5Plus. You have to have GE closed before you can use AFT.