Do you still regret the time you didn’t back up your media files and then suddenly your computer got attacked by a deadly virus? Do you want to relive the moments by watching those videos you made while you and your spouse were trekking through the National Park? Too bad they are all lost!
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PhotoStick might look like an ordinary USB drive, it is actually a mind-blowing innovation that is specially optimized to store photos but can be essentially used to secure any type of media file!
Be it Mac (OS X 10.7 onwards) or Windows (7, 8, 8.1, 10, Vista & XP), Android OS (Version 5.5 [Lollipop] onwards) or an iPhone (iOS 11.3 onwards), the PhotoStick is compatible with a range of devices. The device comes in various sizes that users could choose from, as per their needs. The sizes could be as large as 64 GB for a smartphone and 1 TB for a computer. Now that’s a colossal amount of data you can store!
Starting the PhotoStick
Windows: Once you plug the stick into your computer’s USB port, head towards File Explorer and open ThePhotoStickWindows.exe. After it loads, click the green GO button in the bottom right corner.
Mac: After you plug the stick in your device’s USB port, a desktop shortcut under the name PhotoStick will appear. Open it. If there is no such icon, head to the Finder and then double-click PhotoStick, which will be listed under devices. Select ThePhotoStickMac. Once it loads, click GO, which will be in the bottom right corner.
Getting Familiar with the Interface
Once the application has been loaded, here are a few things you will get to see:
- Main Menu: This directs to several other features such as settings, logs, photos/videos, and checking for program updates.
- View Logs: This button shows all back-up logs for current and previous back-ups.
- Settings: This button will direct you to the Settings and Options window for the application.
- My Photos/Videos: This button will display all the media content currently backed up in the device.
- Back-Up Statistics: Gives you information regarding your current backup.
- The PhotoStick capacity chart: Gives you a graphical representation of how much free space you still have left on your device.
- Status Area: For any necessary notifications before, during or after the completion of the back-up.
- Go: This button is for starting the backing up.
- Exit: This button is simply to shut down the application.
Beginning the Back-Up
Once you hit the GO button, the back-up will automatically begin. By default, the program will look for JPEG files and back-up them. However, you can change these settings and back-up almost all kind of files you want.
Viewing the Backed-Up Files
The procedure to view the backed up files for both Mac and Windows computers is as follows:
Mac
If the device is plugged on to a computer named ABCD, the path of the backed-up files will be /Volumes/PHOTOSTICK/My_Files/ABCD.
Windows
When the device is plugged into a computer named ABCD and the drive letter F is assigned, the backed up files will be found on the following path F:\My_Files\ABCD\.
Settings & Options
To access this section, you can simply click the Settings button on the main interface. Here, you can view as well as change any default settings related to file location and file type.
File Type
By default, the PhotoStick scans and backs-up JPEG files. However, this can be easily changed as per the user’s needs. When you go to the settings and options section, you will see Photo File Types and Video File Types. Click the appropriate option and select all the file types you want. Click OK to save the selection.
File Locations
By default, the application starts its search at the following paths:
- Mac: /Users
- Windows: c:\
When you go to the File Locations area in the Settings & Options section, you can click Add to add another path to be scanned. Similarly, you can also remove, skip or go back to the default paths.
Options
There are a lot more options within the Settings & Options area. For instance, you can skip duplicates, exclude photos/videos smaller than a particular value, copy thumbnails in the iPhoto Library, debug logging, maintain the source directory structure, and also consolidate all files into a single directory.
In a nutshell, we can conclude that the PhotoStick is hands down, the best solution for all your media backup related worries. We bet you probably wouldn’t find any simpler and faster alternative in the market. It’s a 10 on 10 overall!