And I do mean relative, but for a while, I was doing it one image at a time.

Now, how you organize your hard drive is your business, but I created folders and mimicked my board names.

First, download and install Basilisk browser. This operation is the only thing I use Basilisk for. 

Second, go to Pin4Ever plugin page and install it. As stated, this is a plugin, and it runs only on Basilisk. Pin4Ever has a trial run before it becomes a paid service, but I decided to pay for a whole year.

If you decide to run it once to get all your pins, it will take FORever. It gives you one download folder and dumps them all in there. #protip Take the time to create your folders on your hard drive and download one board at a time from Pin4Ever because it won’t sort them for you once the pins are downloaded.

I have a “faves” board on Pinterest because they took away “likes.” Assholes. Anyway, I’m now meticulous about sorting and filing my pins because I want to maintain the correlation between Pinterest and my hard drive.

So every once in a while, I will back up my “faves” board, then sort them accordingly on both Pinterest and my hard drive. That way I keep up with the backup. This is also why I decided to pay $24.99 for a year.

Unlike a lot of people, I only have about 20,000 pins. With my Pinterest archive on my hard drive now, I put random pretty pictures into it instead of bothering with Pinterest. I don’t doubt Pinterest will someday come for my account, but I’ll be damned if I sit there and let them take away my carefully curated pictures.

It doesn’t back up links or web pages (e.g., recipes). It just backs up the pictures, including gifs.

I hope that is helpful. It’s saved me a lot of anxiety, so I thought I’d share.