Picture Keeper Saves Your Important Memories *review and giveaway*
June 27, 2009 by Laurie
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This day and age everything seems to be reliant on computers. I know that I am on mine close to 8 hours a day and it is where I do a majority of all my writing and storing of just about everything. Since we are smack in the middle of the digital age when it comes to cameras and taking pictures, it is only natural that you are storing them on your computer. When it comes to backing up images on your computer I bet a lot of us fail miserably.
I take tons and tons of pictures of the boys and I will have to sheepishly admit, that I don’t have too many of them hanging on my walls. Let’s face it in the digital age of picture taking, we all get lazy and get all too comfortable with the idea that we have them stored somewhere on our hard drive. The reality of it is, that, hard drives fail and ultimately put you at risk for losing all of your precious memories. My husband has a server in which he keeps a lot of our important files and photos on, but even then, I like to keep a disk or something that holds my pictures in a safe location far away from the computer. Anything can happen and knowing that I have some alternate location for storing my photos eases my mind.
Up until now, there really wasn’t an easy way to gather all of my pictures on my computer. I store all of my photos in different locations on my hard drive. I have photo files dedicated to reviews that I do here, my photography business stuff is stored in another file, and the pictures of my boys are in another. So everything is sort of all over, and wouldn’t it be nice to just be able to have a device that does all the work for you and gathers all the pictures on your computer, organizes them, and wahlah, you have them all together?
Well now there is a simple solution, and what I like to call my magical anti-stress device, called the Picture Keeper. I was recently given a Picture Keeper to try and I am very impressed! The Picture Keeper is a little USB flash drive that creates a backup of your images simple by plugging it in your computer and clicking the “start backup” button. Then it works its magic and finds all images with jpg extensions on the computer. If you wish to backup other images with a different extension there are advanced option to where it can save additional file types. The folders and sub-folders are copied just as they are on you computer! And it gets even better. If you have multiple computers, which I do, you can just plug it in on the next computer and do the same thing. There is no special setting, and Picture Keeper does the work. When you want to go back in and update your files and do another backup, you don’t have to remember what files you have or haven’t gotten because the Picture Keeper will do that all for you as well. Do they make husbands like this? LOL
Being someone who takes a lot of pictures and in the photography business, I am always conscious of the fact that I have so many pictures and that computers do fail, and having some other form of a back up is critical. The Picture Keeper is nice because I can set up a few different backups and store a few of these flash drives in various locations. I would recommend getting several, and keeping one in your home, giving one to a trusted family member to hang on to, and maybe keeping one in another location. This way you have multiple back ups in case something happens with your home then you have all your memories preserved. Just to see how it worked, I plugged it into my laptop and let it go. Later when I did a backup on my main computer with all my photos, it was just as simple.
ABOUT PICTURE KEEPER
Inventor Matthew Stanchie knew there had to be a better way to backup digital images. Despite working
for Hewlett-Packard, the thought of backing up his personal photos gave him a headache, and he could
only image what others without a background in computers went through. So, he created a user-friendly
program that automates the task (making sure to get the approval of an evaluator from his target
demographic—his wife.) Picture Keeper plugs into any PC, including Macs, and copies all images with
one click. With Picture Keeper, it’s a snap to save.
Picture Keeper is available in 4GB, 8GB and 16GB sizes online at www.picturekeeper.com.
I was amazed at how fast all my files were backed up and how easy it was to use. Anything that can make my life easier, is a huge plus. The Picture Keeper is so awesome that Dr. Toy awarded them with a Best Vacation Product for Summer 2009 Award. I definitely give The Picture keeper the mom seal of approval and I applaud it’s ease of use. It isn’t a complicated gadget and yet it is worth a million dollars if something ever happens to your photos. Picture Keeper retails for 8GB ($39.99) and 16GB ($59.99). The price is worth it when you consider how much it would be if you lost all of your photos!
Would you like to win a Picture Keeper of your very own??? DoubleBugs is giving away an 8GB Picture Keeper to one lucky reader.
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house burned down in 98 and lost all my sons pics
I am having a daughter in 2 weeks and want to be prepared this time!
I can’t imagine losing my family pictures forever. I would be heartbroken if that would ever happen….
Thankfully I have not yet lost any photos. However, I do have them stored on an online site that while currently free, I am fairly certain that down the road they will either charge for the storage or limit the amount and then I will need another solution.
I would like it because I never print any of my pictures off, at least this way I would look at them
losing and not having backup
I think about if we had a flood how on Earth I’d save my photos, they’re not organized or in one place.
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I haven’t lost my photos, but we have been very close to a couple tornadoes, and I was scrambling around trying to find all my pictures to take in the basement with me. I definitely need this! Thanks!
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i would like a picture keeper to be able to keep all my fav memories!!:) this is a great invention!
It would break my heart to lose all my family pictures. I would love to have a backup plan. Thanks!
A few years ago, I contracted a Trojan that wiped out all of my data…pictures included…I was crushed. Those photos are gone forever. The Picture Keeper would be an ideal way to prevent this from happening again and to be able to take my photos with me wherever I go.
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I would like to have a Picture Keeper because it would do 3 things–be a safety mechanism so they wouldn’t be lost in a computer crash, make them portable from one computer to another, and free up space on the computer.
My computer is getting pretty noisy, and I would hate to lose my vacation pics.
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I have so many important pictures, graduations birthdays etc. I would hate to lose any. I have lost a few photos and that was frustrating so I definitely need to store them better.
I have moved several times over the past several years and keeping up with my boxes of photos is difficult
I would love this , any picture on my computer that I have saved would break my heart to lose.
I don’t even know if I have them saved the right way, I am a computer dunce, but I am trying to learn. As you can see, this would be a big help to me
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I’d hate to lose my photos. I rarely have any printed and this is my children’s lifetime memories.
My son spills something on the laptop and it kills all the good stuff on there.
This would be a great backup.
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We had so many problems with our previous computer that we lost every picture we had on there- and we had a ton! I don’t want to make the same mistake again.
It would be wonderful to have a Picture Keeper because then all my treasured pictures would be safe!
My computer is SUPER SUPER slow due to all of my pictures being on it…I also have tons of CDs with pictures stored on them and its so hard to have to look through all of the cds to find ONE picture!
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I have lost photos before and it WAS a nightmare. Unfortunately I’m not very computer savvy and this sounds easy enough for even ME to use. It would be a great prize. Thanks.
I don’t ever want to lose any of my pics of friends and family who are not longer here. It would just destroy me to not have those pics.
I would hate to lose all of my son’s pictures and the future pictures of my daughter due in 2 weeks! I rarely print them out but love looking at how little my son used to be.
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I would love to have a picture keepr because I have so many photos on my laptop and I have nightmares that some day I will lose them all if my computer crashes.
i have pictures from when i went to Peru on my mission trip i would be devastated if i lost them, i could really use this to back up all my pictures over the years
my sister’s house burned. she lost most of her possessions and original photos. but she had them backed up in a computer at her office.thank heaven for back-up.
My non-tech savvy parents have tons of pics on their pc. This would be a great way I could back them up and make sure they don’t lose a single one.
I have so many memories of my 20’s, growing up and losing them would be heart breaking to me. I lost pictures from HS and still get really bummed out when I think about it-such good times on film now gone.
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I would like to have a picture keeper as a form of back up for my pictures as I currently do not have one 🙁
I would like a picture keeper so that I would always know where my pictures are.
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my computer crashed & i lost everything =( i hate losing pics but can’t afford to order hard copies of them al
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30 years ago I had preemie twins they spent 6 weeks in the hospital…now at 51 I would have like to have the pictures we took,but none of them came out.digital camera would have been nice;the picture keeper would be great now for all the grandkids.thanks
I have never lost my photos but I have them stored in so many places that it is bound to happen sooner or later
This would be great I am always taking pictures and I am so scared that I am going to lose them I usually post them on my computer at home and work
my worst moment was when my grandson put a cd in my drive and erased my whole hard drive, i lost all my photos, i was so mad at him!!
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We had our last computer totally fry in an electrical storm. The surge protector failed on us and we lost EVERYTHING on that computer. We got a new computer but have been saving to CDs – which is a PAIN in the butt. You never are 100% sure you saved all the new ones, they take forever to find and if we would have to transfer computers again it would take a long time to re-load them!
It would be just awful to lose all my pictures; they’re irrecplaceable. Pictures of my grandkids’ birthdays & holidays, not to mention pictures of my elderly parents.
Losing pictures of the exes would be a bit hit. Not like I’m friendly with any of them to take some more.
i need a backup plan
Our old computer crashed about 5 years ago and we tried to salvage what we could but we lost about a year worth of pictures that we had been saving on the computer. BOO!
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I have already lived through my worst nightmare. Major computer crash and my images were not backed up. Lost a few Christmas’ of photos on top of the 500 plus I snapped while at Bryce Canyon National Park.
I would love to have an easy way to backup photos since I am a budding photographer.
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I would hate to lose my photos because they are the links to keeping family history alive.
I’ve been through 2 computer crashes and I lost way toooooo many pictures! I desperately need the 8GD picture keeper…thanks
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Now that we use a digital camera, we don’t print most of our photos. That doesn’t mean that I want to lose the images, though, and I’m not willing to rely on a single copy on the hard drive. I’d love this backup system!
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My daughter just turned one, and I have a whole year’s worth of pictures on my hard drive. I really need a system for backing them up.
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I would love to have a picture keeper to save space on my computer’s hard drive.
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I would like to save my pics to make room on my hard drive. Thanks for the chance.
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Thankfully, I have not lost any photos yet, either. I do try to back up my files to DVD-Rs. But the Picture Keeper would be much more convenient. Thank you for the chance to win.
I lost all my pictures when my laptop was stolen. I wish I had a Picture Keeper before I lost everything.
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I have pictures from my wedding and all my pictures from mine and my husbands dating life prior to marriage on my old computer. It got a virus and crashed!! I still have it hoping to find a way to recover them. I don’t want that to happen to my babies pictures. I would LOVE to get this.
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I could really use one of these. I have soooo many pictures on my pc and would be just heartbroken if I lost them!
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A few months back, I realized 4 folders worth of photos were missing. It was thousands of photos that just seemed to disappear. Luckily, I eventually found them in my music folder on the computer several weeks later. But I was so sad when I though they were lost!
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i have so many pictures on my hard drive , i would love to win picture keeper and getting them off my computer before i end up like some people here ..loosing them
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I have never lost any and hope I don’t.
I lost all my pictures when my computor crashed. I learned a lesson form that
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My worst nightmare would be losing my parent’s pictures. There are so few of them, and would be irreplaceable.
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I can’t imagine how crushed I would be if I lost all of the photos of my grandchildren.
I am the family historian and I recieve many photoes from cousins and extended family through e-mail that are irreplaceable. I would just die if I had a crash and lost even one of them. JeansandTs@hotmail.com
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i would hate to lose all of our photos of the kids when they were babies, so this would be a great backup system!
We actually lost about 2 years worth of photos when our hard drive crashed about 6 months ago. We definitly learned to back things up! This would hlep!
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I had a scare recently – my computer got dropped (laptop) and broken. ALL of my picture files were on that PC – and weren’t backed up. thankfully, the guy at the computer shop was able to salvage them off my hard drive – but I was terrified! ALL of the pictures I have of my kids were on there! I definately need to start backing up! Thanks for the chance to win!
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We had a home break-in and the laptop was stolen. Thank goodness we had all the pictures of the kids on an external hard drive that the robbers overlooked! But who knows? They could have easily taken that too. I’d feel better having something small that could be kept with me when I’m away.
My absolute worst nightmare was when my son was less than one years old. I had over two thousand pictures stored on my computer when a virus attacked my computer. It literally burned my computer before my eyes and the entire room was filled with smoke. I really wasn’t concerned about the computer because material things could always be replaced. I took my computer to a specialist, but no luck. In the end I lost over 2,000 pics which are priceless to me. My most valued possessions (not family of course) are my photos. I treasure those! So I could certainly use this wonderful Picture Keeper!
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I lost some of my pics I didn’t back-up one time when my computer crashed. It upset me terribly. Thanks 4 the opportunity 2 win
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I lost my photos once and it is still traumatizing! NEVER again!
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Our baby is one and I think I would fall into a deep depression if I lost all of those caputured firsts!
I like that the Picture keeper is so easy to use, a great way to have that extra backup.
I still have many photos in albums that have not yet been scanned and it would break my heart to lose them
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I’m so afraid that I will lose my wedding album. It contains the greatest pictures of the greatest day of my life. I would be devastated if I lost it!
Would love to have this for all of my Grand kids photos. Thanks for the contest.
I would love a picture keeper! I have about 12 GB of pictures on my computer and there is a fear of losing such precious memories. I don’t know what I would do then. Thanks for the awesome giveaway!
I broke up with my ex boyfriend unexpectedly. Not only did he take the computer that I purchased, but he didn’t give me a chance to copy any of the pictures (or school work, or anything else important)!
I’d like to have picture keeper so that I can store all my photos in one place. It is such a pain burning soooooooooo many photos to CD’s. Ugh!
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I haven’t lost my photos yet but I’d be TOO pissed.
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We have 5 years of photos–our daughter’s entire life–on our ancient hard drive. Scary!
I’ve never lost any pictures luckily, but as my computer is getting older, I am getting nervous. I would love to have the picture keeper so that I don’t have to back up my pictures on differnt CDs. Thanks for the giveaway.
when my computer died last year it wiped out 6 months worth of pics, luckily i saved everything else but never want that to happen again
Everytime photos have been lost, whether paper or digital, it has caused me great consternation. Please accept my entry. Thank you.
My worst nightmare is that my hard drive is shot and that I have lost everything! This has happened only once. Luckily, my DH is a ‘tech support’ type person. He spent 2 weeks retrieving my important things, ie., my pictures. I love him to death! What a sweetie! He said there was no service out there that would have taken the time to do what he did. I would love to have a picture frame for all my pics! Thanks so much for this contest!
Worst thing that ever happened to me was I had about 1 gig full of pictures of myself, my nephews, nieces and the rest of the family that my 10 year old niece had taken. She was an amazing photographer, but I was wiping my music files clean from my hard drive and I accidentally wiped my pictures too. SUCKED!
bring on the photo keeper great for organization and don’t forget the reduction for frustration in seeing the photos in some type of ordering. Thanks SW
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My computer crashed, with all of my son’s baby pictures in it. It took weeks for my hubby to extract them! I can really use this!
My son dropped the camera in the lake.
This would be great for the pictures we took during our last trip to France.
This would be a gift from hraven for me!
I would love to have a Picture Keeper because we have over 12,000 photos on our computer! I’m dreading the day they inevitably get erased.
I lost two years worth of photos when my hard drive crashed and was unrecoverable. It was really a nightmare.
Nightmare of losing my photos would be bad, as they are something I cherish forever.
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I lost pictures from a family cruise that I had stored on my computer when we had to reformat.
I have over 6GB of pictures on my computer – I would be heart broken and sick if i lost all those memories from the past 2 years!!!! That is my worst nightmare – loosing pictures of my babies big events like birthdays, Christmas, special moments.
Hurricane Katrina flodding my home, Enough said
My worst nightmare would be losing all the pictures of my family especially those who are already gone. I would like to have a picture keeper to better organize my pictures in one place.
I would LOVE this. My laptop hard drive just crashed and I love EVERYTHING. Thousands of treasured photos. It was so sadening, but taught me a lesson about back up.
I’ve got photos stored on 2 computers and it would be a nightmare if I lost any of them. Especially the photos of our new granddaughter! This would be perfect to keep everything in one place and keep them safe.
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I’ve already had my worst nightmare – my external HDD backup drive suffered a head crash and I lost *everything* on it. Hubby had backups of some of our pics, and the wedding photos are safe on a CD, but I lost so many irreplaceable images!
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I would like to have one of these because I have so many treasured photos on my computer.
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I bought a new computer and transfered everything to it then erased everything off my old one and gave it to a needy family. One week later I came home and my computer was making a horrible sound. It was totally fried. I got a new one but I lost everything that was on it.
I’ve been lucky and haven’t lost any photos yet but it’s just a matter of time. I need to get one of these to protect my photos.
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our pics are so important! I’d say 95% are digital and it would be a terrible loss to lose them!
I’d love to win this prize, thanks for sponsoring this.
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My worst nightmare actually just happened a few days ago. We had left the house and i left my computer on as i do many times while we’re gone. Well, what i believe happened was that my cat got all over my keyboard and seriously changed something or that it was while getting a windows update. either way we came home that evening, i shut of the computer and thought everything was fine. Well the next day, i started my pc up, and nothing worked, as soon as everything loaded up it would freeze, i was unable to get into any settings at the beginning screen or anything. Needless to say a few days ago, i had to restore my entire computer without being able to first save anything! including pics, on my pc ;(
I’d like to have a picture keeper because I have so many digital photos of my daughter, all the way back to her birth, on my computer and I couldn’t stand to lose them. macd82 at gmail dot com
WE had a fire once and while the picture weren’t burned up there was a lot of water damage from the fire being put out.
When I was younger our house burnt down and not only did we lose my brother but we also lost most of his pics. I would love to win this and keep my kids pics safe!
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I gifted DH a laptop, and he needs the user-friendly PictureKeeper to protect his photos.
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I have not lost any yet,but would be very sad if I did!
This is a great idea!
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Haven’t lost any to date, but would be devasted if I did. Need this to keep it from happening.
I just hope that nothing will happen! Picture keeper would be awesome to not worry anymore 🙂
A Picture Keeper would be useful to me because I have a baby boy and would hate to lose precious photos of him!
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I have lost pictures before and it really bummed me out because they was special ones and I can never get them back again. I have some what learned when I get a large amount I burn to a cd but there is still the chance I may lose ones that are not burnt yet.
i would love one because i am afraid of losing precious family pics which would break my heart 🙁
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The typically story: I failed to back up pictures, hard drive crashed and I lost 2 years of pictures. I would like to have the picture keeper, because the memory stick itself clearly states : Picture Keeper.Also, the ease you stated of using it.
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I lost them all in 2000. My computer had to be fixed and it came back totally blank and wiped out. I was so mad!
I would love something like this since I take so many more pictures now.
If my computer crashed I’d lose a lot of photos because I’ve only backed up a few
I would like to have picture keeper becauase I am the worlds worst when it comes to backing up things.
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i need it. my comp. crashed 3 months ago and i lost a lot of photos.
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I’ve scanned hundreds of print photos and saved the images on my computer. If I lost all those images it would just be horrible.
My computer completely crashed around 4 years ago and I lost all of my family phtots.
I just got a DSLR recently and have take tons of photos, I need a Picture Keeper as I’d hate to lose all of them!
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My husband has spent hours scanning old family photos and retouching & correcting them. I would really hate to lose those because of all the time he put into fixing them up. I have a back-up drive to keep copies on. I would love to give the Picture Keeper to my mom, because she has a lot of digital photos and has no clue how to back them up on anything!