Uploading activities to Strava - very slow

[Dougie]

Everytime i choose to upload an activity to Strava it takes minutes (about five minutes or more) in the "searching for activities" phase, to bring up all the activities that i presume are saved/recorded on my Garmin (500). The very top one is generally the one i wish to save. Once the activities are displayed all the saving etc happens at lightening speed. It just the finding of activities that takes forever.

Does anyone share this issue?
If so, have you overcome in and how?

I have a relativity new laptop with higher processor speed. i have shut down and rebooted and tried just about everything i can think of. I am at the point of pluging in and going off to make a coffee.

Any Thoughts?

cheers

Dougie

[Nozzle]

Dougie,

If your Garmin is loaded up with other ride data, Strava (or Garmin Connect) needs to scan through all your rides then select what to upload.

I manually pick my latest rides and upload them that way. Otherwise delete your old ride data if you don't need it and you can auto upload much quicker.

Hope that helps.

[Lizanne]

ditto with the problem. but it gets worse the more data i have. so i'm assuming it looks through all the stuff to figure out whats new.
when i figure out how to read the garmin data and make it useful then i might start deleting old rides

[JoTheBuilder]

I upload all my rides to both Garmin Connect and Strava. I see this as essentially 'backing up' and so can delete the rides off my Garmin. I have no problem with speed and do this once a fortnight or so.

I have no idea if I can download anything from either of these websites in the event I want to transfer them to a third but I guess it's just like Facebook whereby if it ceases to halt activities (or goes broke) then oh well.

[Eleri]

I don't have this problem at all and I had a couple of years' data on mine until recently when I deleted it for other reasons.

[Stuart]

I back mine up by copying the files and then delete them to make access faster.

[Anthony K]

I chose the option to delete all but the last months data a few days ago and the speed increase was dramatic
Good idea to copy the files to your 'puter before deleting in incase one day you decide to use some other software.

[Nozzle]

It is possible to export from both Strava and Garmin Connect though....

[Karzie]

They don't publish specs, but there has been suggestions they still use USB 1.0!

[Dougie]

Great work everyone. Problem solved. All backed up, deleted and running as fast a greased pig sliding down an icy hill!
Oink oink