SANDISK

I don’t use this often but it seems like every time I do there is a new user interface that is worse than the last. However, after downloading the app again last night after a period of not using it (I checked for an update last night too) I was coming to make a review and found an update that did improve the UI, but the functionality is still off and not what it was a few years ago. There is no move feature. After the copy is complete there is only a few seconds to select to delete the photos from your phone. If you don’t delete you are left to manually delete and hope it copied everything you deleted. When it finds duplicates it just shows the nonsense name the phone gave it. So you don’t know what images it is referring to. So you either keep both because you aren’t sure or risk writing over something that wasn’t actually a duplicate. There is also no skip, so if you find yourself where I am, not everything it deleted was copied over, and try to copy the group over again you have to deal with the duplicate issue. Which wouldn’t be bad if it would deal with phone edits properly and not count them as a duplicate of the original (that may be more of a phone issue, but the app should address that). Over all I find the app basic and hard to use, but necessary for the external drive which is really nice to have.

I have an old Ixpand Flash Drive Slim model and had been using the Ixpand Flash app. I was hesitant to use the new Memory Zine app which was supposed to replace it. I was comfortable with the quirks and limitations of the old app. I would use the IPhone photos app to select the photos I wanted and could call the Ixpand app to copy them in a folder of my choosing in the drive. But it was limited by the total size of the files I could copy. And it was painful if I had a lot of photos and videos to copy. With the new Memory Zone app, I had to learn how to copy files as it behaved differently. I would all from within the app access the files from the phone, select them then copy them to the flash drive folders of my choice. But, the size limitations seem to be gone and I could select and move large numbers of files from the iPhone to the drive without crashing and it was pretty fast compared to what I was doing before. But, in order for me to copy files, I would have to create iPhone albums to separate out and organize the pictures I want, then select the albums from the iPhone using the apps gallery selection. If I selected Gallery and look under recent it seemed to freeze because perhaps it had to load alot of pictures. I don’t know for sure, I didn’t want to wait for who knows how long before the app comes back or may be crash. I would recommend putting in date filters to limit the recents search update so as to speed up the update process by limiting the loading of all the pictures which could be under recent. Also, it wold be nice to have all of the pictures meta data available so we can retain the original photo date. It seems when I copy files from the iPhone to the drive it gets a new date, the date of the copy and the original date is lost.

Why they went from the old app to the new app is beyond me. The old app was fluid. Worked like a charm. When backing up would should you in a little icon section just below the progress that would display the images and videos it was going through to back up and how far along it was. This one not only doesn’t do that, but gives you ridiculous estimated time of how long it will take. 2000 hours for 400 files? Are you serious? Not to mention that it doesn’t even show any progress to begin with, so you don’t really know how far along you are. Since this new app was required to use the same back up process, we all had to download it as the old one is no longer functioning. Which is stupid. Anyways… when I first went to use it, what would take 30 mins, took such an ungodly amount of time to back up, that it didn’t even finish doing so, before a phone that had 74% battery life died while being left alone for several hours 😐. Then to top it all off, even though it was plugged in for that amount of time… Nothing and I mean nothing backed up. The last back up that worked was the one that I did back in January before the mandatory switch to the new app. - Only good thing I can say about it, is the updated interface. As it makes it look and feel slicker, but what good is it if the whole point of using it doesn’t even do the job it’s intended to do. - Update as of May 10th 2025, after I just updated it. The app now doesn’t work at all.