FIT RESCUE · GUIDES
Guides for Garmin FIT files
When an activity file is refused, cut short or nowhere to be found: what the message means, what to do first, and what FIT Rescue can and cannot repair. Each guide ends with a button to the tool.
“One of your files was not accepted by the system”
Garmin Connect refuses a file you import by hand. The usual causes, and how to repair the file.
Read the guideStrava: malformed upload, improperly formatted data
Strava refuses a .fit file. What the error means and when the file can be repaired.
Read the guideWatch died during an activity
Flat battery or freeze mid-run: what to do first, and how to repair the file the watch left.
Read the guideWhere is the .fit file on my watch?
The GARMIN/Activity folder over USB, and the original export of Garmin Connect.
Read the guideActivity missing after a sync
Recorded on the watch, absent from Garmin Connect: the checks to make and the manual import.
Read the guide
All FIT Rescue tools
The same tool, opened for each need. Whatever the page, the file is read on your device and you can repair, view and convert it.
Repair a FIT file
A file that Garmin Connect or Strava refuses: diagnosis, repairs you can undo, a repaired file checked by reading it back.
OpenCheck a FIT file
Find out whether a .fit file is corrupt before you upload it, and why an app may refuse it.
OpenView a FIT file
Open a .fit activity without an account: track, charts, laps, device and the messages it contains.
OpenFIT to GPX
A GPX track for maps, route planners and apps that do not read FIT, with time, elevation and heart rate.
OpenFIT to TCX
A TCX file with the laps, for training platforms and older apps that read TCX.
OpenFIT to CSV
Every recorded point in a spreadsheet, ready for charts, analysis or a script.
Open
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