No, no worries about anyone here in the forum -- it's the "programmers" at Fitbit that basically ruined a very simple program that worked perfectly. For years. All I want to do is do a "sync now" at the end of the day, then record those numbers on a spreadsheet I use to track various healh numbers. The new version of the software -- "Fitbit Connect" -- seems to sync automatically properly, but the "sync now" feature just sits there searching and searching and searching and searching for my Fitbit One, and never finds it. Again, I think it worked once or twice, but "nine times out of ten," it just won't find my Fitbit One.
I finally went to Fitbit's "setup" page, and found that they had some older versions listed on their software for Windows page, so I downloaded the version they had listed for Windows XP. I just installed that right over the existing program, and, of course, it worked perfectly right from the start. I fully expect that the "programmers" at Fitbit have decided that "everyone has moved to Windows 10," and that's what broke their software on older versions of Windows -- I'm using Windows 7, just like a very substantial percentage of Windows users who will never, ever go to Windows 8 or 10.
My only issue was "OK, so how do I keep Fitbit Connect from automatically upgrading itself to a new version that won't work?", but I got an answer to that when I booted up my computer this morning -- right there on the screen was a little dialog box asking if I wanted the program to automatically update itself or not. So, I chose "not," of course, and hopefully that'll be the end to my sync problems.
So, again, no worries for anyone in the forum -- I appreciate everyone's help. I just get frustrated at "programmers" that make "new, improved" software versions that break functions that used to work perfectly.
