I run PK on my phone, which recently got hit by the Android 14 media storage bug (if you’ve not heard of this you probably don’t need to panic, it only affected people with multiple accounts on the phone).
As a result, I couldn’t save any new media or access any old saved media files either. Which meant, among other things, no exporting PK progress.
And the last time I exported and backed up progress on my big full coverage project? I’m sorry to say, dear reader, it was at least 10,000 stitches ago (probably quite a lot more but I was too scared to check).
Now, my story ended well. I had the milder form of the bug, and Google pushed out an emergency update that seems to have fixed it for me. But lots of people weren’t so lucky and are left with a factory reset as their only option. If that was me, I’d have lost so much PK stuff!
So yeah, PSA. Take regular backups. Make sure they’re somewhere safe. It’s worth the peace of mind!
I tried a few times to use Pattern Keeper, but it just frustrated me and seemed to make things more confusing so I never did really get into it. Does it really make things alot easier?
I don’t think it’s necessary for smaller patterns like the ones you’ve mostly been doing so far. Mostly I just do those by looking at the PDF on my phone while stitching.
But when you get into the big full coverage things (my main project in there has over 100k stitches and a LOT of confetti) it’s honestly invaluable for most of us who try it.
Still, each to their own and all that. But if you do use it, back up your progress lol 😅
I have some full coverage patterns I’m working up the courage to try, maybe I should give pattern keeper another go when I start working on one of them lol