Garmin Training Center restore.
- August 2nd, 2011
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I did a fresh install of MacOS Lion on my MacBook. I had a Time Machine backup of my Snow Leopard installation. I installed the latest version of the Garmin Training Center software to export my running history from my Garmin Forerunner 305. I needed to restore my old data from my Time Machine backup. It took me quite a while to determine the file and location of the database file. The file you need to locate has an gtc extension. I used the default installation path in both Snow Leopard and Lion. My database file was located in ~Library/Application Support/Garmin/Training Center. I simply had to replace the database file created at install (Training Center.gtc) with the file of the same name from my Time Machine backup. And that was it. It took me longer to find the file location than to do the restore.
Thank you, Jim, this made my life a lot easier!
@Lyle
Glad it helped.
Hello i restor my mac and i forgot to save my garmin traingscenter files. i try it lke you guys but i ´t not work. Mayee the problem is that i just make a new Timemaschine do go on the old one i have to press alt on the keybord and than sersch for other TM … do you know how i get my data files? Thanks
@Flabes
You need to find the Training Center.gtc file in your Time Machine backup. Without that or an export of your data backed up, you will probably be out of luck.
Is there any other place to look besides: ~Library/Application Support/Garmin/Training Center?
I looked in multiple time machine backup files and there is no “Garmin” under “Application Support.”
Thanks,
Lou
@Lou
I would do the following from a Terminal session:
sudo find ~/ -type f -iname ‘*.gtc’ -print
This will through all the files in you login directory to find the database.