I connected my Edge 530 via USB to my Mac today to manually save all .fit files from the Activity Folder on the device to my hard drive, but was surprised to find the folder on my Edge was completely empty, even though I completed an activity today that uploaded successfully to Garmin Connect online.
I have been making manual backups from my Edge to Mac like this for years and never had an issue. I last successfully copied and then deleted all activity .fit files from my Garmin on 11/16/24.
Why has my Edge device suddenly started deleting all activities after upload, and how can I stop this behavior so I can periodically make hard copies of *multiple* .fit files at once?
(I am aware that I can laboriously download one activity at a time from Garmin Connect but have no interest in drastically increasing my workload this way).