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Accidentally Discarded Activity

Former Member over 5 years ago

I finished up a run tonight and accidentally must have hit 'discard' in my exhausted state rather than save. I connected my watch to my PC and found the file in "records" but no activites. I can't upload it to Connect. I tried using a third party site to "fix" the file with no luck.

Has anyone successfully salvaged a discarded run?

I appreciate your help!

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Equesta over 3 years ago +7

I'm having the same problem as @7457844 My Vivoactive shows up as an MTP device (not a Mass Storage Device -- ie a USB drive), so recovery programs don't pick it up. So any advice/experience on how…
Former Member over 5 years ago +4

Former Member

hi, sorry to hear about your mishap

the file you found is no activity fit file

just maybe and with a lot of luck

stop all activity on your watch by turning it off until you start a file recovery…
Former Member over 4 years ago +2

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0 Former Member over 5 years ago

Former Member

hi, sorry to hear about your mishap

the file you found is no activity fit file

just maybe and with a lot of luck

stop all activity on your watch by turning it off until you start a file recovery scan

with the use of a file recovery program and some luck one could find the rest of the fit file

for PC

for Mac

follow a partially successful recovery

happy & safe sporting

0 Former Member over 4 years ago

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0 Former Member over 4 years ago in reply to Former Member

Thanks, Recuva did it!

0 Dex110 over 4 years ago in reply to Former Member

Geeka! You're a legend!! Thank you for this. Saved my epic ride that my silly sausage fingers discarded!

0 5356030 over 3 years ago in reply to Former Member

Thanks Geeka!!! You saved the day!!

0 JArturoSF over 3 years ago in reply to Former Member

Hi tried this solution but couldn't find the workout on the folder is there any way?

0 seilogramp over 3 years ago in reply to JArturoSF

Which file recovery method are you using? I've had some luck with Recuva.

0 JArturoSF over 3 years ago in reply to seilogramp

Doing the explorer of the files of the garmin watch on the Activity Folder. Will try to use Recuva

0 7457844 over 3 years ago

All the recovery tools won't let me access the watch. How did you do that? I find it in file explorer but it somehow is not a listed volume in the recovery programs

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0 Equesta over 3 years ago

I'm having the same problem as @7457844 My Vivoactive shows up as an MTP device (not a Mass Storage Device -- ie a USB drive), so recovery programs don't pick it up. So any advice/experience on how to restore .FIT files from a MTP device would be great!

I have a Vivoactive 4 with a stupid touchscreen - which goes haywire when I have a shower (and discards my activity!)