MikeMck
Loc: Southern Maryland on the Bay
I am seeing some advertisements for an application and USB flash called "Picture Keeper Pro". The app supposedly finds all your pictures on your hard drive and saves them and avoids duplicates.
Has anyone had any experience with this application? Thanks in advance.
I have no experience with Picture Keeper Pro, but I did look at their web site. Their price of $249.99 for 500GB seems a little absurd when you can buy a 4TB Wireless Passport with 8 times the space, for $197.99. A standard 4TB Passport is $104.83.
You can do your own backups free. Simply copy your pictures or other files to the USB attached Passport. And with the wireless version you have the added convenience of being able to copy photos from your camera directly to the Passport, without needing a computer, and browse them via wifi using your tablet or smart phone.
The only convenience I see from Picture Keeper is that it may save you the trouble of learning how to "drag and drop", thereby preventing you from learning a skill you really need to master regardless. That's simply learning how to find where files are stored, and how to move them around to change their storage location. If you are going to be using a computer at all, this is probably the most fundamental skill you need to understand.
Hello I am the developer of Picture Keeper. Yes my software mainly comes on a USB ( flash or external) drive that we markup for our services but you can also purchase our Create Your Own Picture Keeper for $20 and use with your 4TB.
Yes most can drag and drop but I ( as well as others) have found value in our software because 1) it's skips duplicates 2) picks up where the last backup left off 3) runs on both Win and Mac 4) works well with Mac's Photos app .....to name a few.
Bottom line: if you think it's worthless, money back.
frankraney wrote:
It is a photo back up system(usb drive and software) that can be connected directly to camera nor computer.
Point of clarification Picture Keeper DOES NOT connect/Plug into your camera!
frankrany wrote:
Or get the passport and the Picture keeper software for $20 and your still MONEY saved.
Agreed - by your own drive and create your own with the $20 software option. MyPassport's doesn't skip duplicates.
I believe that if you take the responsibility for managing your own backups properly, you don't HAVE duplicates. The first thing I do after a shoot is to copy the originals to a Passport, where they will never be touched except to make a copy from. Then I copy them to a working folder on my PC . Those originals ARE my backup... no duplicates. There are probably a bunch that should be deleted, but what the heck... 4TB is a LOT of space.
Same with keeping a copy after post-processing. I copy them to the Passport, again, no duplicates.
Same with anything else I want to save a copy of on the Passport.
Picture Keeper sounds nice....but I thought it might be $29.95....NOT $250!? I'll leave them as is.
There is a "create your own" option at picturekeeper.com for $19.99. So… If you buy your own drive for $10 ( Walmart, Target, etc) or have one laying around the house, you can make your own Picture Keeper for $29.95.
I got one from Amazon for 99.99. I'm having some issues w/it though. I did contact support but nor sure if their solution actually worked. After 3 hrs of backing up, (my 2nd attempt) it showed the device was almost full but showed 0% in the photo file. I went to click on support again & got kicked out. When I tried to get back in, a popup on my computer did not recognize the device. Not real happy right now.
I got on here to see if others had experienced similar issues.
spaceytracey wrote:
I got one from Amazon for 99.99. I'm having some issues w/it though. I did contact support but nor sure if their solution actually worked. After 3 hrs of backing up, (my 2nd attempt) it showed the device was almost full but showed 0% in the photo file. I went to click on support again & got kicked out. When I tried to get back in, a popup on my computer did not recognize the device. Not real happy right now.
I got on here to see if others had experienced similar issues.
Update. This thing is going back!
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