My Garmin 1030+ now thinks every ride is the longest one.
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If I recall, deleting them has fixed similar issues.
That was in reply to your dumb "infinity" comment.
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So, there is a limit. When does it do that?
aweatherall over 2 years ago
aweatherall says that the device deletes old ones.
There isn't a strong reason to have so many activities on the device. Seems easy enough to see if deleting them fixes the problem.
aweatherall over 2 years ago
aweatherall says that the device deletes old ones.
There isn't a strong reason to have so many activities on the device. Seems easy enough to see if deleting them fixes the problem.
I immediately upload my activities after each ride and rename them to something better than the generic "slow feeble afternoon ride" on Strava. If they haven't uploaded to Strava within minutes of completion, it means I hallucinated the ride, and have to repeat it. This can get especially cumbersome if it involves a commute to or from work.
My Garmin dash cam deletes the oldest files when the memory card approaches full capacity. I am not sure exactly what percent of full this corresponds to, but with the Edge it sounds like 200 files is the cutoff. I could see how that might be problematic if someone created huge ride files, say by sleeping without terminating a ride for weeks at a time. So if they indeed implemented it that way, they didn't anticipate the pathological exceptional case.
I don't know if it is user-configurable, but many OS for such devices let you choose to save a week of files, a month, or whatever, or delete them after upload (which has a slight risk). Garmin seems to hard-wire a lot of this stuff. More choices = more user error.
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I immediately upload my activities after each ride and rename them to something better than the generic "slow feeble afternoon ride" on Strava. If they haven't uploaded to Strava within minutes of completion, it means I hallucinated the ride, and have to repeat it. This can get especially cumbersome if it involves a commute to or from work.
My Garmin dash cam deletes the oldest files when the memory card approaches full capacity. I am not sure exactly what percent of full this corresponds to, but with the Edge it sounds like 200 files is the cutoff. I could see how that might be problematic if someone created huge ride files, say by sleeping without terminating a ride for weeks at a time. So if they indeed implemented it that way, they didn't anticipate the pathological exceptional case.
I don't know if it is user-configurable, but many OS for such devices let you choose to save a week of files, a month, or whatever, or delete them after upload (which has a slight risk). Garmin seems to hard-wire a lot of this stuff. More choices = more user error.
My Garmin dash cam deletes the oldest files when the memory card approaches full capacity. I am not sure exactly what percent of full this corresponds to, but with the Edge it sounds like 200 files is the cutoff. I could see how that might be problematic if someone created huge ride files, say by sleeping without terminating a ride for weeks at a time. So if they indeed implemented it that way, they didn't anticipate the pathological exceptional case.
I don't know if it is user-configurable, but many OS for such devices let you choose to save a week of files, a month, or whatever, or delete them after upload (which has a slight risk). Garmin seems to hard-wire a lot of this stuff. More choices = more user error.
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You are just whining uselessly and provided no help at all. So, go ahead and be proud of that.
It’s hard to recall things one has read awhile ago exactly. But it seems there can be issues with too many activity files.
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My Garmin dash cam deletes the oldest files when the memory card approaches full capacity. I am not sure exactly what percent of full this corresponds to, but with the Edge it sounds like 200 files is the cutoff. I could see how that might be problematic if someone created huge ride files, say by sleeping without terminating a ride for weeks at a time. So if they indeed implemented it that way, they didn't anticipate the pathological exceptional case.
I don't know if it is user-configurable, but many OS for such devices let you choose to save a week of files, a month, or whatever, or delete them after upload (which has a slight risk). Garmin seems to hard-wire a lot of this stuff. More choices = more user error.
I don't know if it is user-configurable, but many OS for such devices let you choose to save a week of files, a month, or whatever, or delete them after upload (which has a slight risk). Garmin seems to hard-wire a lot of this stuff. More choices = more user error.
It’s hard to remember stuff one has read a while ago but I recall more than one case where deleting the activity files fixed problems.
It’s possible that the “make space” thing on the Edges can break and make deleting the activities necessary.
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The Edges are supposed to delete the old files too.
It’s hard to remember stuff one has read a while ago but I recall more than one case where deleting the activity files fixed problems.
It’s possible that the “make space” thing on the Edges can break and make deleting the activities necessary.
It’s hard to remember stuff one has read a while ago but I recall more than one case where deleting the activity files fixed problems.
It’s possible that the “make space” thing on the Edges can break and make deleting the activities necessary.
Once it reaches the (small, finite) limit (aka capacity), it (the Garmin's firmware) auto-deletes the oldest files first. You shouldn't have to delete anything manually.
(However, it might be worth deleting stuff manually, just in case there is a corrupted file or something that is causing the issue.)
(However, it might be worth deleting stuff manually, just in case there is a corrupted file or something that is causing the issue.)
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The OS's on these devices likely isn't the fanciest. So memory allocation and management probably isn't very sophisticated. There might be a possibility that the programming on the device might want to use some of the storage outside of it's hidden inaccessible partition. I've always been in the habit of copying all my rides to a archive folder on my PC and deleting rides from my Garmin's since my first Edge 500 and I've never had the weird issues of corrupted files or other issues some grouse about.