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flanker May 2022 12:30pm, 17 May 2022 20,562 posts	flanker Don't put too much trust in the version numbers. If Garmin are A/B testing* new features then there is no guarantee that the version numbers will be directly relate to GCM evolution. I overcome this problem by skipping interval sessions! * where they release different version of the app to different users and track how they use it to determine which approach is the best received/most used/etc.
larkim May 2022 3:35pm, 17 May 2022 17,901 posts	larkim Still think comparing .fit files would be the easiest way to see the difference...
SPR May 2022 4:03pm, 17 May 2022 36,808 posts	SPR It's nothing to do with the .fit files though is it? It's simply a filter on the app. The app actually shows the categorisation for each lap.
Badger May 2022 4:49pm, 17 May 2022 15,202 posts	Badger The app, and the connect website, are showing different behaviour for recent and older data acquired with the same interval set-up. So yeah, it might be something to do with the fit files. FWIW I put my last two interval sessions through the CSV converter in the most recent FIT SDK, and they looked pretty similar but there were a few extra messsages at the end of the newest one - undocumented (not unusual) but I could see very late in the file about a dozen messages with a single field in each one, and there were no undocumented messages in the previous interval session with only a single field. The lap messages themselves had the same number of fields, not all documented, across the two files.
Badger May 2022 4:50pm, 17 May 2022 15,203 posts	Badger It could also be that new files are being processed and displayed differently at the server side, and old ones are not being reprocessed to match.
SPR May 2022 4:50pm, 17 May 2022 36,809 posts	SPR Ok, I thought everyone was saying it had changed for everything. If it's only changed for new then that's different.
Badger May 2022 4:56pm, 17 May 2022 15,204 posts	Badger There is a little confusion in this discussion...
Badger May 2022 5:48pm, 17 May 2022 15,205 posts	Badger The lap messages themselves had the same number of fields, not all documented, across the two files. And the workout step values were the same across the two files, give or take one being classified as active/rest vs active/recovery.
larkim May 2022 6:49pm, 17 May 2022 17,903 posts	larkim If you upload two files into the online fitfileviewer site do the workout structures and laps look identical? Each workout element has an index number which the laps then refer back to so if there is any difference between those elements of the file you'd expect to see it there I suppose.
Oranj May 2022 7:43pm, 17 May 2022 3,175 posts	Oranj Just for you Kieren the weather looked apocalyptic for this evening's club track session so I programmed it into my FR and did it on the road a bit earlier. Same result as last time, all the different run types etc. I guess there must be something up with the files from your watch? Probably just a glitch?