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Warning to Delete Old Activities

In the past few days, I have received a warning message saying my Edge 1030 would begin deleting my oldest activities "soon".

This morning, it's raining, so I plugged my Edge 1030 into my PC and looked at my activities. This is a replacement unit due to the blue halo problem, so it has only 76 activities. I ride with Garmin Vector pedals and have cycling dynamics turned on, so my activity files are on the large side, running to 600KB in some cases. Anyway, I deleted all of last year's rides, leaving me with 16 activities on the Edge. Then I looked at Properties, and I have over 6GB free space.

I know that in the past, I have stored almost 300 rides on my Edge 1000.

Does anyone know the purpose of this warning message? Would the Edge actually have deleted rides?

0 aweatherall over 6 years ago

There is a limit of around 200 activities. Once you exceed that things can start to go wrong.The limit is not based on file size or free space, but rather just the number of activities in a folder. For best performance I would archive off older rides each month. The unit actually processes all activity files each time it starts up so having a lot history can cause issues on start-up on some units.

Typically deleting only takes place when you are short on space, so I don't think it deleted any.

0 colin-campbell over 6 years ago

Thanks for the comprehensive reply. I copy my activity file to my PC after each ride, and it gets sent to the Garmin Connect web site, and on to Strava. So I guess I'm covered as far as my activity files goes. I'll be more proactive about deleting them from the Edge 1030 from now on.