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Cannot delete local music playlist

rylos78
over 4 years ago

As title says, i've just transferrend a folder under music folder on the watch from windows explorer that contains mp3 and a m3u playlist file; so far so good the watch see the playlist and it works ok.
Later I've deleted this folder from windows explorer from the watch but the playlist is still present on the watch, if I select it it says there are no songs in this playlist.

How can I delete this playlist entry? From garmin express it says there are no playlist on the watch too.
Searching in forums it seems a commond problem on garmin watches.
Hard resetting the watch is not an option.

Thank you
Regards

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    Hmmm, sounds like the playlist is cached somewhere.

    I would try the following with no guarantee that it works.

    1) Switch to a different music provider temporarily

    2) Reboot the watch (hold light button for about 15 seconds). No data will be lost

    3) Switch back to music provider "My Music"

    Maybe this rereads the music contents and playlists.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to fischest

    Tried it, nothing to do. Playlist is still present when I switch to my music. I need a way to rebuild this playlist cache, there must be a way to clean up things.....ufff

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to rylos78

    Another idea: create an empty playlist with exact the same name, transfer it with Garmin Express to the watch and then delete it with Garmin Express?

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to fischest

    This did the trick.
    The key points are 1) Foldername and 2) playlist file name. If they match, removing from garmin express removes the list!

    URRAY!

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    It might be worth emptying the recycle bin once you've deleted the files from the watch when connected to a computer before you disconnect. Its necessary on the Mac to do that otherwise the files are not actually deleted.

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    Tried do do the trick from rylos78 on a my Fenix 5x. In my case it didn't work. Maybe in my case this is a problem of user accounts (using Windows 10) where Garmin express has to run with admin rights, while copying the files manually to my Fenix 5x is done under my normal user account without admin rights.

    I've contacted the german Garmin support. They know the problem (which exists on every Garmin wearable able to play MP3) and their only solution was to hard reset the watch... Not working for me, because I usually copy / delete files and playlists once or twice a week and don't wan't to hard reset the watch that often.

    As there are some other customers with the same problem here in Germany, they opened a case at their development team... Let's see, but what a shame that a €800,- wearable has more problems than a €20,- MP3 player

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to No_Mercy_Mike

    Solved :Mp3 was protected on my Pc (Read Only)

    I unchecked the box it's Ok
  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to fischest

    im on a mac and have no luck with my 245m - can do what i want, i cant delete any playlist anymore :( Any idea what to try? hard reset i also tried..

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to philipshambrook

    where i find this folder to delete?

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to 976flo
    976flo said:
    hard reset i also tried.

    On your 245? This is the 945 subforum, but I believe it's the same procedure. A factory reset will put the watch back to day one out-of-the-box condition

    On the watch, go to Settings > System > Reset > Delete Data and Reset Settings. Be sure you have synced everything before doing so as this will delete anything that has not synced over yet.