Originally Posted by
gene99
so i called Garmin re an issue with finishing setup on my Connect account, and the person i spoke to inisited there is no need to clear history on the unit. he said it will do that automatically if needed, and/or compress files if an update requires.
The Garmins are supposed to delete old activity files when there are more than 200 of them. But this process appears not to always work.
If people are having odd issues with their Garmin unit, it might make sense to clear-out the activity files. If these files are being uploaded to Garmin Connect, there’s (generally) no reason to keep them on the unit anyway.
There’s a limit of 100 courses and these are not deleted by the unit. So, these have to be deleted by the user if there are too many of them.
The Garmin devices don’t compress files.
The problem with activity and course files isn’t with having enough free space. The problem is related to the number of files (which wouldn’t be affected by compression).