diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 99cf360..63b38ed 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -144,4 +144,4 @@ dmypy.json
 /photo_thumb.jpg
 /gen_cc_badge.py
 /webtest.py
-/list.fth
+/list.pickle
diff --git a/ePiframe.py b/ePiframe.py
index 63a436c..216d872 100755
--- a/ePiframe.py
+++ b/ePiframe.py
@@ -411,7 +411,7 @@ def should_data_be_refreshed(filename: str) -> bool:
 
     def read_stored_photos(self):
         photos = DataFrame()
-        filename: str = self.config.get("photo_list_file") + ".fth"
+        filename: str = self.config.get("photo_list_file") + ".pickle"
         should_refresh: bool = self.should_data_be_refreshed(filename)
         if (
             self.config.get("refresh_rate") == Constants.REFRESH_ONCE
@@ -423,7 +423,7 @@ def read_stored_photos(self):
                     "Trying to read saved Google Photos data (according to refresh_rate setting set to "
                     "'once' a day)..."
                 )
-                photos = pandas.read_feather(filename)
+                photos = pandas.read_pickle(filename)
                 self.logging.log("Success!")
             except Exception:
                 pass
@@ -570,7 +570,7 @@ def get_google_source(self) -> DataFrame:
         )
         self.logging.log("Success!")
         if not photos.empty:
-            photos.to_feather(self.config.get("photo_list_file") + ".fth")
+            photos.to_pickle(self.config.get("photo_list_file") + ".pickle")
         return photos
 
     def get_local_source(self, photos: DataFrame) -> DataFrame:
diff --git a/install.sh b/install.sh
index 24915f6..fa1b10a 100755
--- a/install.sh
+++ b/install.sh
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ function install_pips {
         echo -e '\n\033[0;30mInstalling Python components\033[0m'
         declare -A pips=( ["Requests"]="requests>=2.26.0" ["Pillow"]="pillow==9.3.0" ["Telebot"]="pyTelegramBotAPI" ["Dateutil"]="python-dateutil" ["ConfigParser"]="configparser>=5.0.0"\
                                   ["Google components"]="google-api-python-client google-auth-httplib2 google-auth-oauthlib"\
-                                  ["SPI Libs"]="spidev==3.5" ["Pandas"]="pandas==1.2.0 numpy==1.20 pyarrow" ["Flask"]="flask<2.2.0" ["Flask-WTF"]="flask-wtf==1.0.0" \
+                                  ["SPI Libs"]="spidev==3.5" ["Pandas"]="pandas==1.2.0 numpy==1.20" ["Flask"]="flask<2.2.0" ["Flask-WTF"]="flask-wtf==1.0.0" \
                                   ["Flask-Login"]="flask-login==0.5.0" ["WTForms"]="wtforms>=3.0.0" ["SMBus"]="smbus2")
         declare -a order;
         order+=( "Requests" )
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index d4e7c01..2b559e6 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ werkzeug==2.0.3
 flask-wtf==1.0.0
 flask-login==0.5.0
 wtforms==3.0.1
-pyarrow==14.0.2
 pytest
 starlette
 google-api-python-client