After buying a 16GB Picture Keeper flash drive, I find it's designed to only work on Macs and Windows.
Is there any way to make this work on Mint 19.x?
It's a great tool.

It says it only works with ms-windows and mac right on the package.
OTOH, is it possilbe to not use the built-in software and use it as a "standard" storage device?

At the moment I am running the Windows version under WINE and it looks like it might work.
(Finger crossed)

Nope, didn't work.

Returned the Picture Keeper, couldn't make it work.
Does anyone know of a Linux compatible substitute for this product?

So this is a thumbdrive with proprietary software on it that backs up pictures? Simpler and much cheaper method would be to simply copy the pictures to a thumbdrive. To me, this product is something sold to Windows users so they don't have to think about what they are doing, at all. Seems like a pointless product to me, really.

Also, a thumbdrive is definitely not the place you want to keep something to archive for a long time, at least in my opinion. A better option would be to buy a standard external backup drive (USB) and simply copy the pictures to it.

If I had to guess, probably not a Linux equivalent of this product.

My .02.

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On the face of it, you're right.

The problem is, it's for my wife's computer and she has thousands of pictures scattered all over the place (emails, picture folder, download folder, and Picasa), and many duplicates etc.
The software on the flash drive finds ALL pictures wherever they are,and skips all duplicates.
I wanted to upgrade her computer from Ubuntu 16.x to Mint 19.3 and it's divorce time if I lose any of her precious pictures.

On my own (organized) computer I could just copy and paste onto a flash drive and be done with it, but I don't need to because all my pictures are safely backed up on Google Photos and Amazon Prime.
My wife doesn't trust any of these things so she won't use them, and it makes my life difficult....

It's a point and click program that apparently works very well, but the authors didn't see fit to make it Linux compatible...

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Ah OK, totally understand. I FINALLY got my wife to use iCloud for photo storage.

Ah... get it.
Actually, a good idea for the wife.
You could install virtualbox and into that whatever version of ms-windows needed to run the software on the thumb drive.
It would probably be necessary to map all the linux drives in ms-windows so the software on the thumb drive could find all her pictures.
Just a thought.
I did something similar as my scanner works best with the HP windows drivers, so I installed VirtualBox and into that winXp and into that the HP drivers, and mapped my /home/username/document directory in xp so I can save any scans directly to that folder.

I don't know what type of scanner you have, but mine works perfectly with both Mint and Ubuntu, just using the native scanner program built into these OS's..
Mine (actual scanner), is built into my Epson 3540 colour printer, I have no problems scanning to a folder I made in Linux.

Anyway, thanks, but I returned the software to Walmart.