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(More customer reviews)I bought this device about two months before I went on a trip to photograph Arches National Park in Moab, UT. All of the photos I took comprised segments of large panoramics to be sold to some local clients.Yes; I tested the device thoroughly (or so I thought) by taking numerous practice photos and then transferring them to the Photo Safe II...later retrieving them by copying to my PC. I used three different CF cards from different manufactures in 16 & 32 Gb capacity.All seemed to work fine.
Fast forward:I'm back from Moab after taking 125 GB of photos (6,000+ images). Anxious to process and review my panoramics I started off-loading my photos from the Photo Safe II to my computer.All is well for about 10 minutes when my computer freezes up. I try again and again, only to find that there are numerous corrupted files (photos) on the Photo Safe II that won't download. I re-boot my computer into Safe Mode but again the copy process hangs up; I then go to good old DOS and start working with XCOPY commands but again, no luck.I tried this on two other computers only to come to the same results.There were in fact corrupted files on the Photo Safe II that just wouldn't copy over.In fact it turns out that close to 25% of my photos are lost forever. The loss of files would have been more like 40% except for the fact that I hadn't erased a lot of the photos from my CF cards and so I was able to get them off through my SanDisk card reader. POINT: The CF cards didn't fail...the Photo Safe II did.
Tech Support offered some good recommendations but I had already tried most of these as I have 25 years of working with computers.I tried four different data recovery programs and none of them helped either.
The Bottom Line:When you can't see photos on a photo viewer such as this, after you have off-loaded them from a memory card, you blindly trust someone else's technology.I have an Epson Viewer that I can literally review the photos on afterwards on an LCD screen.(I didn't use it because it only has 20 GB of capacity.) I am hoping to get a refund for this but it won't even come close to covering my costs and the lost revenues from my clients.The trip was mostly one big costly mistake and YES, SHAME ON ME!
Don't buy this device if you value the photos you are trusting to it!
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Product Description:
An essential digital camera companion a portable photo storage device Imagine being on vacation and you are snapping digital photos like crazy. Having Photo Safe II with you means having a place to save your precious photos so you can keep snapping away. Just insert the digital camera memory card into Photo Safe II and directly download images - no cumbersome cabling or computer needed.Never worry about running out of memory card space again. Photo Safe II frees up expensive memory card space and lets you reuse your card to keep shooting. When you get home, simply connect Photo Safe II to your computer to retrieve your saved pictures. Photo Safe II easily copies the entire content of your memory card with the convenient one-touch Auto Copy button with copy speeds of up to 5.0MB/sec, so a full 1 GB card can be copied in approximately 3.5 minutes.Photo Safe II works with all popular card formats, including CF Type I (including Extreme III, IV, UDMA), xD-Picture Card, MMC, SD/HC Card, miniSD, Memory Stick, MS PRO, MS Duo, and MS Pro Duo. You can also make copies of photos taken from friend's and family's cameras by inserting their cards into Photo Safe for instant archival of special moments.A unique folder name that indicates media card type and copy sequence is automatically created for each copy task to help you keep organized. When you get home, simply connect Photo Safe II to your computer to retrieve your saved pictures. With its user
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