yes sorry, I took the other version of ‘huge database of workouts’.
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I wish more apps would have an option to sync workouts to cloud storage. TR is one of the few that I’m aware of that do that. I have TR export to Dropbox and intervals.icu pulls those workouts from there. Or at least I did have that setup like that last time Strava broke their intervals.icu link
Good point of clarification. Thanks. I thought he was talking about the library too.
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Lots of people mentioning Dropbox across various threads recently. I looked into it and immediately moved on because it looks like it costs at least $10 a month these days. Is this wrong?
Also, isn’t using Dropbox introducing the same risk as we had accepted with Strava in that everything is in one place?
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Open a new account, the free version should be more than enough for decades of fit files
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Thanks. I didn’t even bother since when I clicked on pricing it didn’t mention a free account.
Unfortunately the Dropbox connection doesn’t push old activities, only new ones. So if you want to keep your existing data you’ll need to keep Strava active (or request a GDPR pack from TR, which I’ve done but haven’t received yet, so no idea how usable the data in there is)
I don’t know which device you use but I was able to retrieve all my old data from wahoo (which I then put in Dropbox)
No. Strava was/is not at fault. The USSS agents should have hidden their activities or not posted to a public forum if there were location concerns.
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Absolutely agree that the ability to hide those activities is there and they should have done it, but given the bad publicity from this and other incidents, I do think Strava is at least partially motivated to make these changes for their own legal safety
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I’ve got Garmins, and although TR can push activities there, Garmin won’t then push them onwards to (in my case) intervals.icu, or any other destination if they didn’t originate from within the Garmin ecosystem.
I’m fed up with companies putting all these restrictions and covenants on our data, and everything is just so fragile.
I thought they were just joking but I googled it and the USSS agents were actually stupid enough to post it 
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I’m not sure if it’s stupidity. If agents are on their off time and go for a run in the city that the protectee is in, there is no issue or safety concern. This happens all the time.
Typically the general location of the protectee is not hidden (ie: Trump will be at a rally on Friday in Chicago). Rather the exact location and time at any given moment is. The potential issue arises when the protectee is trying to hide their location for safety concerns. This happens when the location is considered hostile (foreign country) or the location is inherently difficult to control.
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Call it Naivety then, if for some reason I was reason I was an agent I couldn’t imagine keeping any part of my movements public whether attached to anyone else or not!
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To some degree but Dropbox’s primary purpose is the ability to store and share files. Taking that away would collapse their business.
Strava’s business has more beyond sharing files.
I’d argue also with something like Dropbox porting files from it to another service if you needed to switch is stupid simple.
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If Dropbox shut down right this second, I’d still have a folder in my laptop with years of fit files to do as I please, which is nice. Honestly Dropbox syncing is one of the things I miss about having a Wahoo bike computer; I wish Garmin and Zwift did it.
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You could set up a macro to do this automatically.
I think you have this wrong here. You can take a .fit file and upload that wherever you want. Nobody is restrictive you doing that. What companies are doing is not being responsible for sharing your data with others.
To be honest, with the world as it is today, I wouldn’t want the additional risk of sharing someones data…
So Garmin aren’t stopping you from sharing your data with whoever you want… they just don’t do that for you.
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Except they do share my data, with my consent. They push my data to TR, Strava, intervals… all over the place.
But they’ve made a business decision to only push data recorded on their own platform.
And with my TR->Strava->intervals path not working any more (some issue with TR, support ticket already opened, as of now still unresolved), it’s become all the more apparent to me just how fragile all of this is, especially with companies making arbitrary decisions about his my data is permitted to flow (and even more so when they change their minds, as in the original subject of this thread)
Im suprised they have so much control over the data, given unless it was recorded on their app, they themselves have got it through a 3rd party API to then share around.
Personally, I never open Strava and cancelled my subs some years ago. It is a glorified odometer for me, but crucially a neccesary data hub.
I record activity from zwift > Strava > TR, garmin > strava > tr and whoop > strava > tr.
As of now, only one can be fixed which is a shame.
But it does open the space imo for a big cloud provider to create a data hub service without the fancy/unnecessary UI where all APIs can send to and receive data from.