r/ProtonDrive

I know there's one now for windows app but please help an apple guy out..

I'm band new to proton and have been looking to see if subfolder exclusions for drives sync is possible and looking online to see people have been asking for this for years, this is a pretty basic feature I'm shocked is still not implemented

Yes, I have been waiting, too. Way too long.

In the end, most Proton services are quite disappointing (except Mail, Pass, VPN). Self-hosting seemed so difficult and time-consuming, but actually it only took a day or two of work, and occasional maintenance work. No more worrying about e2ee, as all data is at home. I use a 10y old laptop as server and it works very well.

As of now, a Linux client seems on the way, but it may take another couple years to have feature parity with other providers. Waiting is not worth it.

The original metadata, including GPS location data, is currently preserved in the shared files…

Would be awesome if the Proton team could implement a toggle or an automatic feature to strip those metadata/EXIF data when creating a shareable link for photos.

Hi everyone,

I could really use some help. I'm in the process of completely de-Googling and have successfully exported everything from Google Photos to a local hard drive backup.

I have about 600GB of photos and videos. Currently, they are all sitting in a single folder, which amounts to over 90,000 files. My goal is to move all of this over to Proton Drive (either into a regular directory or directly into the Photos section).

Here is what I've tried so far:

• I used rclone to try and sync the drive to a Proton Drive directory. However, I keep running into API rate limits and, most recently, Proton Drive's hard limit of 30,000 files per folder.
• I then tried using restic + Proton to bypass the single-folder constraint and create a cleaner backup, but I ran into the exact same API errors and transfer failures.

I'm at a bit of a loss right now. I don't even know if Proton Photos can support this many files, or how to successfully execute a massive bulk upload directly into the Photos section.

Does anyone have any ideas or workarounds to solve this? :-(

Thanks in advance for your help!

I just started using my new Macbook and set the root folder in Proton Drive to „Make always available offline“. My Mac currently uses 160GB of all the storage but my files on Proton take up almost 300GB. What happened to the rest?

Not only that but for the past 2 hours Proton Drive has been stuck at „uploading 2950 files out of 2950 (99%)“.

Seriously how is Proton Drive so much worse on Mac than on Windows?

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I saw 8 months ago on one of the proton subreddits that there were some synchronization issues where it is absurdly slow synchronizing across different PCs and the speed is just horrendously slow. I'm wondering if they ever fix this or if it's still just as slow? For some more information, I'm talking about if you have like a desktop computer and a laptop right, and you're using it just like Google drive and Gmail. Where you are syncing up your entire PC

I just want a simple cloud backup, and Proton Drive feels way too complicated. I genuinely don’t understand the intended design behind this product.

I have multiple laptops, PCs, and phones, and all I want is a cloud drive where I can easily share and access files across devices. I recently started using Proton Drive since it’s included with the Unlimited plan, but honestly, it’s been really frustrating.

I don’t understand how people actually use this product. For example, I backed up a PDF from my phone, then tried to access it on my desktop, and the file literally doesn’t exist in the Proton Drive desktop app.

The file shows up on my phone under “My Files” in Proton Drive, but I can’t access it from the desktop app at all.

This was one of the features I was hoping to get real value from with the subscription, but now I’m seriously considering switching to another cloud drive.

Hey everyone.

I love Proton / Notion. I've made some really aesthetic / beautiful functional "tools" using Docs / Sheets. Right now it's just understandably still a bit too glitchy for me to use, despite trying and trying and trying to make the system work for me.

I shifted from Notion 100% to Proton (Drive, VPN, Docs/Sheets, Calendar). But I'm thinking of maybe doing a hybrid flow of still using Proton Products but going back to Notion.

A huge reason why is because I do a lot of budgeting, and me and my family do a lot of trips. With Notion I can have them download offline pages automatically, and the user interface is a bit more user friendly, or compatible across most devices, without having them open Drive / Docs / Sheets constantly and manually downloading things each time.

I just feel like I'm going "backwards" but I also want to continue supporting Proton (I have a paid yearly plan). But I also want to make use for what I pay for.

Weird question, but just open to any ideas / suggestions. Also, no bashing against Proton - I love Proton, just wanted some ideas! : )

Hello all,

I have decided as of yesterday to start digging into using Proton for my pieces (using it for storage, changing over my email and then spending a while picking through and changing all my accounts from gmail.com to proton.de and so on. It's all been incredibly welcoming and surprisingly helpful as my intention with a computer is never super comples, I just want to have the tech do the job I want without frills or autocomplete or anything. Now that I have set up my Proton Calendar (this one seems to be from scratch but I could be misunderstanding how to import either an Apple or Outlook calendar). The only exception is I have gone from Google to DuckDuckGo to Ecosia for my browser and I will likely be sticking to it. I was just wondering a few things about Proton docs before I go ahead and actually sink money into this:

1. Is there a possibility of just buying Proton Docs without any of the side pieces which is also tacked on: I understand it is at a pretty great rate, but I am trying to be as straightforward with this as possible. I want something I can use to run a Word equivalent and everything else is a bonus.

2. How similar is it in practice to Word or is it closer to Google Docs: While Google Docs is useful in a situation where I need to quickly whip something up I often find that elements of it fall short in regard to what my actual needs are. I enjoy customising and automating elements of documents with the likes of cross references and so on, which Google Docs is frankly just worse at.

3. Is there a way to run Proton Docs offline: I want to be really straightforward: I want to just run Word on my laptop without needing to understand the inner machinations of Proton to do so. If I can run it offline or have it saved to an actual offline file on my laptop's hard drive like you can have with Word then that is exactly what I need.

If Proton Docs isn't what I am looking for it's a disappointment but no great loss. Regardless, super happy I have been able to start extricating my stuff from Microsoft and Google.

Thank you if you are able to help me out here.

I want only some specific photos or videos from my camera roll to be saved on Proton Drive but it still asks me to give full access which I don’t want to do because I’d have to manually delete the photos I don’t want.

The only alternative would be manually uploading stuff from my camera roll in bulks of 10. Is this the fastest way to do it?

Hi, my Unlimited plan unded and due to financial reasons I have to downgrade to Mail Plus plan.
Unfortunately that is impossible, since I need to free up more space (15 GB is max).
But that seem to be impossible as well. I had 61 GB of storage used. I deleted my photos, but they were only 35 GB, that is real size according to the .zip downloaded to my PC, same amount was subtracted from the storage count on the web app.
What is left is a couole of dozens documents and couple hundreads of photos. Together they make up no more than 3 GB. But the storage is at 25 GB. Why?

To sum it up:
Trash is empty.
No desktop client used, only web browser app and an Android client whose data I removed completely from my phone.
Visible files do not account for reported usage.
Storage decreased correctly after deletions, but substantial hidden usage remains.

Thank you.

Hello and thank you for your time. I am looking to change the location of the Proton Drive folder to an external. I am able to do this farily easily with DropBox, however I am not seeing a setting in Proton Drive ? Is it possible to change it with Terminal ? Thanks ahead of time.

OS: MacOS

Hi everyone,

I'm helping a friend create an offline backup of her Proton Drive, which contains roughly 2,000 photos and videos. We attempted to download the files using the Firefox browser, but the process is extremely slow and frequently times out or cancels mid-download.

Given the file count and size, is there a more robust, faster, or reliable method to accomplish this? I'm open to using command-line tools, dedicated sync clients, or any other workaround that handles large batches better than the web interface.

Any advice or tool recommendations would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

I closed ProtonSheets, opened again because I forgot to add one number and instead of one column with numbers and a conditional column besides it I now have like half a dozen repeated number columns with no format at all. Do you guys even do basic QA?

Currently in r/MEGA subreddit, as well as social media posts about MEGA, there are way too many users getting falsely banned and getting permanently locked out of their cloud drive because of "objectionable content". MEGA is supposed to be End-to-end encrypted, so it's so confusing how they are able to read their users' cloud drive.

Don't get me wrong, I am not hiding anything illegal in my MEGA drive, but I have a lot of personal information in my drive since I fully believed that it is E2EE, like my photos, documents, save data, and my resume. The bans is not my worry, it's the fact that MEGA somehow is able to read my cloud drive despite the claim of being E2EE. Is Proton Drive a good alternative?

I am actually looking at switching to Proton Unlimited but I am unable to because of the lack of Linux support so yeah.

ive already reached out to support and am awaiting their response. however, i wanted to reach out here if anyone else has has a similar experience.

the issue is that a shared proton doc (i am not the docn owner) will not load. it shows the file getting decrypted but then it freezes when a separate circular loading icon is at ~60%. it also freezes every other proton tab i have open on my browser. anyone else encountered this before?

thank you in advance!!