I just updated Garmin Connect. (NB: you have to go into the tools section to realize it needs an update as it doesn’t tell you when you open Garmin Connect. It just says you have the latest version, when you don’t!)
Anyway, I see Garmin Connect was not saving my files in Device Agent as Ant Agent was doing. Is it now working?
Why must we always be fooling around with some software catastrophe by manufacturers who seem to be hell bent on hiring programmers who were trained at the Mental Hospital for the Criminally Insane? Garmin’s hardware is very good, but why can’t they do their software right?
Also, Garmin Connect’s Export function is totally ridiculous. You can’t do bulk Export to, say, Training Peaks. This is one reason I pulled the plug on Polar devices. When will they learn? Make it easy! I don’t want to spend all day fiddling with software.
I’m very frustrated… Rant mode off.
I just updated Garmin Connect. (NB: you have to go into the tools section to realize it needs an update as it doesn’t tell you when you open Garmin Connect. It just says you have the latest version, when you don’t!)
Anyway, I see Garmin Connect was not saving my files in Device Agent as Ant Agent was doing. Is it now working?
Why must we always be fooling around with some software catastrophe by manufacturers who seem to be hell bent on hiring programmers who were trained at the Mental Hospital for the Criminally Insane? Garmin’s hardware is very good, but why can’t they do their software right?
Also, Garmin Connect’s Export function is totally ridiculous. You can’t do bulk Export to, say, Training Peaks. This is one reason I pulled the plug on Polar devices. When will they learn? Make it easy! I don’t want to spend all day fiddling with software.
I’m very frustrated… Rant mode off.
-Rober
I don’t want to waste any time let alone all day, which is why I don’t use software to analyse training.
I use the 910xt. Before the update it wasn’t saving files locally. I noticed the update uninstalled ant agent before applying the update. Apparently they were conflicting. Glad to hear the program is saving files locally now but how do I easily get about two weeks data into device agent? Are you using wko3?
I’m assuming you were working with the ANT Agent and now converted to Garmin Express (both programs are on your PC, they pull the activities from your 910xt and upload them to Garmin Connect.
The earliest version or two of Express did not keep files locally, but they semi-quickly fixed this issue. One bummer, however, is that Express saves to a totally different location than ANT Agent did… Thus the explorer folder that opens from a wko import will be wrong, you’ll have to navigate to the new location and select the files there.
Depending on your computer OS the location may vary.
Changing folders was what? An attempt to piss off customers with bad decisions? It worked! Thanks for the help but now will they fix that limp lizard called garmin connect?
I was at that page by the way and saw this:
Windows Vista, 7, 8:
C:\ProgramData1\Garmin\GarminConnect\DeviceUnitID\Upload for the place where the files are located. I have no such location on my computer after the update.
I think you’re meant to use Garmin Express these days.
Files are then stored at on C:\ProgramData\Garmin\GarminConnect\Forerunner 910XT-3848877885\Upload\FIT_TYPE_4 my windows 8.1 machine
To upload in WKO I just do manual upload from that location.
Garmin Connect stored them somwhere else. Just search your computer for files with suffix .fit
Also, none of the very few *.fit files are recent. They go back to August. And there are only 4 of them. And they aren’t where you said they’d be. The four files are in my cycleops sub-directory in MyDocuments.
If you are uploading to Garmin Connect (using ANT+ Agent or Garmin Express) you can turn on AutoSync to upload from Garmin Connect into TrainingPeaks (which will sync back to WKO if you wnat)
Thanks, but that doesn’t work. I even extended my membership. I put in my username and password, then went to file, and download from TrainingPeaks.com and I get an error message referring to WKO 1!
I think my old subscription may have lapsed in September. (since racing season ended I haven’t logged on much if at all.) Does it take awhile to get into the system after you re-subscribe? I have access to my account at TrainingPeaks though.
I just pasted into my Browser, changed the to my name and deleted the last two folder names (< device # >/Activities). Should be able to select them from the folder list and find the .fit files in the Activities folder.
It works on my machine (tested it to be sure). I copied that entire link as pasted in my post and then eliminated the last two folders as I mentioned. I saw my 910XT’s device ID and there were a bunch of folders under that. Activities was one of them.
I’m on an older Windows 7 laptop, so maybe the file structure has changed.
I’m guessing you’ve already tried a “Garmin” search on your C drive.
I put in my username and password, then went to file, and download from