Beginning Nov 1, 2019, the free version of the diary will only save data for last two years

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  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,620 Member
    cheryldumais wrote: »
    Just took a look by the day and much of it is already gone. I think they have already removed some of the data. I've been on here since 2015 but when I try to pull up the days they are blank.

    FWIW, I still have data for 7/25/2015 . . . haven't checked all days in between, yet. ;)
  • cheryldumais
    cheryldumais Posts: 1,907 Member
    AnnPT77 wrote: »
    cheryldumais wrote: »
    Just took a look by the day and much of it is already gone. I think they have already removed some of the data. I've been on here since 2015 but when I try to pull up the days they are blank.

    FWIW, I still have data for 7/25/2015 . . . haven't checked all days in between, yet. ;)

    Yes, mine is the same. Seems like odd days are just gone. January 1st is missing but the 14th is there etc.
  • collectingblues
    collectingblues Posts: 2,541 Member
    cheryldumais wrote: »
    AnnPT77 wrote: »
    cheryldumais wrote: »
    Just took a look by the day and much of it is already gone. I think they have already removed some of the data. I've been on here since 2015 but when I try to pull up the days they are blank.

    FWIW, I still have data for 7/25/2015 . . . haven't checked all days in between, yet. ;)

    Yes, mine is the same. Seems like odd days are just gone. January 1st is missing but the 14th is there etc.

    Mine was the same. It was so far back that I figured I must have just not logged those days.
  • cheryldumais
    cheryldumais Posts: 1,907 Member
    collectingblues wrote: »
    cheryldumais wrote: »
    AnnPT77 wrote: »
    cheryldumais wrote: »
    Just took a look by the day and much of it is already gone. I think they have already removed some of the data. I've been on here since 2015 but when I try to pull up the days they are blank.

    FWIW, I still have data for 7/25/2015 . . . haven't checked all days in between, yet. ;)

    Yes, mine is the same. Seems like odd days are just gone. January 1st is missing but the 14th is there etc.

    Mine was the same. It was so far back that I figured I must have just not logged those days.

    I know I logged but they tell me there’s no way to recover it. So no point in going premium since they lost half my data anyway. Their explanation was that it might not have synced which is possible but it would have had to happen many, many times. Since I’ve paid nothing I’ll just have to cut my loses. I still love the app.
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    The_Enginerd wrote: »
    Given this change appears to be universal, it may run afoul of the Article 20 of the GDPR regulations by requiring a Premium subscription to access and export your own data without basically resorting to scraping the data from the unreliable diary reports.
    The data subject shall have the right to receive the personal data concerning him or her, which he or she has provided to a controller, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit those data to another controller without hindrance from the controller to which the personal data have been provided, where:
    the processing is based on consent pursuant to point (a) of Article 6(1) or point (a) of Article 9(2) or on a contract pursuant to point (b) of Article 6(1); and
    the processing is carried out by automated means.

    I'm in the US so this doesn't really apply to me anyway. Although UA pays lip service to applying those principals globally.

    https://myfitnesspal.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360032273632-What-is-the-GDPR-and-how-does-it-affect-my-experience-with-Under-Armour-and-its-related-applications-
    We believe the principles laid out in the GDPR will become the global standard. Under Armour therefore has adopted high-level principles from the regulation, as well as other similar regional regulations, and is working to apply them globally throughout our consumer journey.

    @Alex might want to point out to someone that this change is a potential violation of the GDPR.
  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 14,307 Member
    @Alex is either too busy, or agrees with the actions, or disagrees but has been over-ruled.
  • seltzermint555
    seltzermint555 Posts: 10,740 Member
    I think it's kind of cool to go see what I ate for lunch on March 17, 2014 at some restaurant I visited on vacation, cross-referenced with my Yelp review of the restaurant...but it's definitely not cool enough to pay for it. So whatever.
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    edited October 2019
    NorthCascades wrote: »
    Curiosity got the better of me and I came up with a way to export your entire food diary in one fell swoop. You just need to know what date to start with. Takes a bit of time, creates a CSV file. I need to put some finishing touches on it and do a little more testing.

    I need a way to make source code and an executable available, don't have a website to host it on.

    @PAV8888 are you able to assist with that ^ ?
  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 14,307 Member
    edited October 2019
    NorthCascades wrote: »
    Curiosity got the better of me and I came up with a way to export your entire food diary in one fell swoop. You just need to know what date to start with. Takes a bit of time, creates a CSV file. I need to put some finishing touches on it and do a little more testing.

    I need a way to make source code and an executable available, don't have a website to host it on.

    Well, other than gihub or just a shared google drive, or onedrive , or dropbox file that people would run at their own risk, may I remind that @EvgeniZyntx used to, for years, have an MFP Data Export and Many Interesting Calculations Tool for Excel that would scrape the same food diary page. He was hosting it using his MFP blog and would link to it via the thread he had started and from his profile page on MFP: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/EvgeniZyntx/view/mfp-data-export-tool-the-overview-659927 (and as it turns out he is just hosting it as a publicly shared file from his dropbox).

    Plus any of the many free ~1GB to ~10GB file hosting plans that allow for public file sharing. <-hmm, I should get with the times: seems that dropbox has restricted this? Never had an issue doing it with google drive myself. pcloud seems to do this. OK: and dropbox still allows sharing individual files via public link, just not a complete public folder.


    Some vague ~2 years back the tool stopped being able to import arbitrary time ranges and became limited to 365 days. Subsequent to that it became unable to get 365 days and the number of days kept going down till the excel reports were devoid of real meaning since they were only looking at a month or so.
  • x7x7x7x
    x7x7x7x Posts: 26 Member
    edited March 2020
    I love how I just found this out today. I have a 2615 day streak on here, and MFP couldn't even give me the courtesy of an email to let me know that my pre-2018 data was going to disappear in October?
  • aussie_girl_del_runner_5
    aussie_girl_del_runner_5 Posts: 303 Member
    I knew about this in Oct but I've just fine and checked and I still have all my data from when I joined in 2015.

    Here is a random date in 2016. I can see everything.



    Yes I'm on the free version, always have been.
  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 14,307 Member
    But obviously, given the announcement, there is zero guarantee that this will continue to be the case.

    Or at least that's what they announced.
  • aussie_girl_del_runner_5
    aussie_girl_del_runner_5 Posts: 303 Member
    Very true, I just thought it was interesting I still have my data.
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