Picture Keeper Review & Giveaway
You don’t need to tell the program where to search as its setup to backup the default photo save locations. However, after running the initial backup I went to view the files that had been saved and found it had saved files I didn’t want to backup. If you are like and save your photos elsewhere then you are able to modify the search options to backup photos in other drives and/or folders. When I un-plugged and plugged the picture saver back in I was happy to find that it also remembered my modifications to the default settings.
I love that the Picture Keeper is able to skip duplicate photos as I sometimes have the same photo saved in multiple locations so this option does save space. It is also able to backup video files if you toggle that option!
Once I did change the settings I started the backup again but it stopped part way through as it got full. I decided to go through and resize all my photos as they were all 6MB which is a lot bigger than what what I need. After re-sizing I was able to successfully back up all my photos pretty quickly with plenty of room left over.
I love how easy the Picture Keeper is to use. It is not your typical USB stick either if that is what you are thinking. The built-in software is what makes this product a real winner. You don’t have to move files manually, it does it all for you. The software also makes use of drive spanning technology which enables you to start using another PK drive once you fill up your initial drive without having to start over again. This means you do not have to deal with duplicates – it keeps track of what has already been backed up and continues on backing up new files.
The Picture Keeper also makes it easy to make prints of your photos as you can simply carry the drive to your local printing store and print the photos directly off of it.
The Picture Keeper is available in a variety of sizes and is compatible with both Mac and Windows computers. The smallest device is the PK4 which has a capacity to hold up to 4,000 photos (4 GB total) and the largest is the PK Pro with the capacity to hold up to 250, 000 photos based on a 1MB file size. There is also the option of the Picture Keeper software which gives you the ability to supply your own drives (either USB or external hard drive) and the PK app for your mobile device.
Buy it:
You can purchase Picture Keeper directly online starting at just $29.99
Win it:
Enter to win a PK 4 (retail value $29.99)! Giveaway is open to residents of the USA and Canada and ends on February 28th at 11:59 pm EST. See Giveaway Tools form for entry and T&C.
Disclosure: I received the above mentioned product in order to facilitate this review. All thoughts and opinions are honest and my own.
Pictures of my bestfrriends wedding
I would be most upset about losing the photographs of deceased members of the family
Pictures of my children’s first birthday party – I forget how small they used to be!
Would be most upset losing photos of our travels.
Great idea for a product…. I would be devastated if I lost our son’s pics. I have thousands of them, all in one spot!
kids baby pictures
pictures of my kids
Pictures of my son.
I would hate to lose the pictures of my sons
Pictures of my family, and my pets that have passed away over the years.
My son
I have over 25K photos on my computer… my nieces and nephews at 1 day old, all the weddings I’ve attended… Irreplaceable memories.
Would be upset to lose any of the family pictures, lots of memories in them!
I’d be so upset if I lost my photos of my late mom
I would be most upset over losing pictures of my family.
Pictures of my son i have printed off only a few of them yet thousands are on my phone and computer!
Pictures of all the kids in the family.
all my daughters baby pictures, pictures of when my husband and I first met, my dogs puppy pictures – all of them!!!
I would be devastated if I lost the pictures of my children.
Probably my vacation photos.
I would be upset if I lost all my pictures of my girls growing up
I would be so upset if I lost all the pictures of my kids, grand-kids, pets & our vacations!!
I’d be upset losing any of them, but especially the oldies. My parents have both passed away, so without backup copies, they’re gone forever.
when my girls were born!
I would be most to loose pictures of my kids!
I would most upset to lose photo’s of my wedding.Thank-you for the chance good luck everyone!
I’d be upset to lose pictures of my father who passed away.
Um, how about the first 4 days of my oldest child’s life and my maternity photos! My husband and I bought a new camera (our first digital!) about a month before our oldest kid was born and he was flipping through pictures and accidentally reformated the SD card!
Now the ones I would hate to lose the most would be any from the last 6 months since I don’t have any of the printed off.
The baby pictures
Every picture that I have on my laptop is special to me, I would be upset if I lost any of them!
Pictures of my kids
pictures of my kids
Travels and vacations pictures
i have so many family pics, i would be lost without them
I think my trip to Alaska I would be upset if I lost them
I would be most upset over losing family photos!
What pictures would you be most upset over losing? I have a few pictures of my deceased parents and two deceased brothers that hurt so much if I lost.
I am the family historian and keeper of heritage photos. Those are the ones I couldn’t bear to lose.
My son’s baby pictures… which are foolishly most on my phone. If I lost it, I’d be devastated.
I would be most upset over losing my vacation photos ‘cos there are a lot of great memories there.
Pictures of my family.
Family photos, kids’ activities, our Disney trips. Lots of great memories! I’d be most upset to lose any of those.
I would be most upset with losing photos of my dad, who recently passed away. Those photos of him and with him are beyond precious to me right now.
MY PARENTS
My kids when they were babies and toddlers.
I would be upset about losing the pictures of my kids in the hospital when they were born
My kids Christmases, birthdays and special days!
All my pictures would be upsetting, but especially the ones of my children growing up
******All photos of my son and family memories******
The girls for sure….the kitties next!
My kids baby pictures.
I would be most upset losing pics of family holidays and all of my grandchildren.
All the pictures of my niece growing up!
Picture from my childhood.
our wedding photos
Pictures of my family.
All our pictures are important, but, the most important to me, are of my parents before they passed away.
my wedding photos
Pictures of my parents
I would be most upset to lose my kids baby pictures.
I would like to say all of them, but wedding and baby photos are the most important
I would devastated if I lost any of the pics I have taken of my little ones
Would hate to lose pictures of family at Christmas
the pictures of my dog that passed away
I would be most upset over losing pictures of my friends and family.
Childhood pics.
My baby pictures
I would be upset about losing pictures of my niece.
I’d be most upset over losing family pictures, especially pictures of my children.
The photos of my grandparents as they have sadly passed.
OK – I totally need one of these! When my daughter was first born I was really good at downloading pictures and backing them up then everything fell apart when I went back to work – I got totally disorganized so therefore, everything is still randomly sitting on various computers/laptops at home! No organization or backup at all. These sound awesome
The very first pictures of my daughter. all 5 pounds of her. my wedding, my childhood. you name it.
all my family pictures but all my photos are important to me
I Would be Lost and Heart – Broken if I lost pictures of my children, I am a mommy to 10 Beautiful children and I am a Very Happy Camera person so if you can image =) Picture’s say a 1000 words =) Thanks for an incredible meaningful Giveaway =) <3
The pictures of my grandkid’s births (twins)
Pictures of my kids and family
The kids’ births.
I would me most upset about losing pics of my children growing up. I lost a usb stick full of pics from my son’s first year/christmas while we were in the hospital. I was so upset. We found it 2 years later in the christmas decorations. I cried tears of joy for almost an hour.
Family Pictures, Milestones and Vacations. Impossible to replace.
All of them. My pictures are my memories. They are all very important to me.
pictures of my kids
Of course I would be upset if I lost pictures of my daughter, but I also have several years of whale research photos that are invaluable.
this sounds a little lame, but the ones of my kitten!
Love this
I would be so upset if I lost my children’s baby photos. Those are Irreplaceable.
I would really hate to lose our oldest family photos from the 1800s.
I don’t think I’d be upset as the fun memories are the most important. Any event that others were taking pictures at would be the easiest to find similar pictures. Pictures of family members laughing I cherish the most.
I would be devastated if I lost my kids baby pictures. A few weeks ago my girls baby books were destroyed from a water leak in the basement.
I have lost my graduation pictures. That was devastating.
My family
I would be destroyed if I lost my sons baby pictures
I’d hate to lose any of my pictures but especially the ones of our baby and of our dog that we had to put down a few years ago.
Baby pictures
My son’s first year would be a devasting loss
It would def be old family pictures that can’t be replaced.
Ive lost pictures before and it really is heart breaking. Id be upset if I lost my daughters graduation pictures which I need to save asap.
Pictures of the grand kids
My daughter because she is now 25 and I love those memories and what they bring back!
I would be most upset about losing any of my photographs.
I would be upset if I lost all my family photos including the ones of my little sister growing up. This device sounds like something I need!
Photos of my daughters birth and newborn stage
Photos of my grandchildren from the times we spend together.
Oh man my wedding pictures! They’re mostly digital copies, the ones I didn’t have printed. And baby pics of my kids!
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my parents 50th anniversary
I would be upset if I lost any photos, but, particularly, ones of my kids’ births!
My wedding photos
my daughters wedding
I’d hate to lose all the photos of our kids when they were little!
I would hate to lose my travel pictures – Iceland, Italy, and San Juan Islands.
My daughter just turned 2 and I have all of her pictures on my laptop so I would hate to lose them!
I would be most upset about losing pictures of my children and grandchildren.
Family
Id be most upset to loose my daughters pics a s a lil girl…
my fur kids that are no longer with me
My wedding pictures
Would be upset to lose vacation photos of family.
family. thanks
I’d be sad to lose any of my pictures!
Childhood pictures before my brother passed away.
I’d be sad to lose our vacation photos.
I would be really upset if I lost pictures of when my daughter was born and as she was growing up.
Pictures of me spending time with my girl Erin
I would be upset if I lost my son wedding pictures
Pictures of my daughter- any pictures of her. She is my gorgeous girl!
I would hate to loose the pictures of my daughters first birthday & of the pet I have recently lost.
Did a restore of picture keeper pro backup into a brand new desktop computer, assisted by a company rep. After much difficulty even locating any restored pictures, I did find them in a remote location. Here is a summary list of my experiences:
1. Many duplicates
2. Thousands of pictures missing of the 7,000 I had backed up.
3. Representative promised to arrange for remote tech support to fix the problem.
4. Five phone calls and messages left by me, no return call, no tech support.
5. Pictures which were found: no organization, no folders as advertised. A non-stop stream of photos which I can do nothing with.
6. I had Amazon Prime upload my Cloud pictures onto the computer, so I at least have those 460 photos, and they are in folders and organized beautifully.
I hope you have much better luck if you purchase this product. Customer support is non-existent and it does not perform as promised on their product videos. My experience was quite stressful.