r/ProtonDrive

Hello,

I don't know about the free storage and it have time limit.

Also Idk when my account got created maybe 1 month or near to 1 month.

Is still I have any chance to get the free 5gb storage?

Or if I delete the current drive account and create a new one with the same proton mail is that possible?

I have now tried to install Proton Drive on windows and android, and both seem to default to immediately downloading all remote files rather than leave it on-demand when I actually access them. Additionally, I have to wait for the sync to finish before even marking them as "free up space" to make them on-demand. That seems like a silly default for any large amount of storage when you want to share it to a new, much smaller device.

Is there a way to always default to on-demand, or am I missing something about the intended use? I don't need to sync 200GB of pictures to every machine I connect to Proton Drive.

Currently as far as I can tell there is:

* NO Search in Calendar

*NO Search in Drive

* The most basic Search in email

Without Search, Proton drive is almost useless, and Calendar is barely usable. Want to find out when your next doctor's appointment is or the last time you met with a business partner? Sorry, can't do that with Proton Calendar.

Why is Proton focusing on bringing out a browser (that nobody asked for) instead of instituting basic functions into their existing products? 

I use the free tier. 2GB storage. And not planning to take a subscription until I make money. Since my notes are under 20MB, it won't consume that much space.

I use two other different syncs already, but, you know, backup is a necessity.

Again, would they ban me for it? Since it syncs constantly?

So recently I almost lost my entire music collection, including a lot of my own recordings. An external drive I use has started to occasionally stop working. I managed to move all of the important files over to a different hard drive but it made me start thinking about going back to the cloud. I used to use OneDrive but ditched it when I money was tight. I've been using the free version of Proton Drive for a while (also use Proton Mail) but is Plus worth it? I've seen good and bad things, no idea why Reddit would change my mind but thought I'd ask, see what the consensus is.

Cheers

I’m dabbling a bit with Proton email as I try to unwind from Google, but I’m also really looking for a backup for my photos, stored on my iPhone/iCloud. I need just over 500 GB so unfortunately would have to bump up to Duo to store it all, but might be worth it? Researching seems like people don’t love the organization but this is literally just an emergency scenario backup; is Proton Drive good for this type of situation?

Open to other suggestions but they have to be genuinely so easy. Self hosting is not happening. Baby steps over here.

What the title says.

Google Photos is great until you decide to backup your photos on another device, then it becomes a nightmare to navigate. Downloading a batch is nearly impossible as you are required to wait forever, and if the system decides the file is too large the download will fail halfway through. I've probably wasted 15 hours just trying to backup my own photos.

Is Proton drive usable enough that I can access my files when I want them?

Proton Drive vs. Proton Pass Notes vs. Standard Notes: Where do you actually secure your important notes?

Hi there. I am happy to announce that my project that I have been working on for some time `pdcli` is now available on crates.io, and can be installed with `cargo install pdcli` (i do plan on putting on package managers).

pdcli is a FUSE client with a graphical UI (or cli if you prefer), using egui for the frontend (so no clunky chromium).

I recently switched back to linux, so this will be more regularly updated as well, with the next feature being Computer syncing.

I hope you guys try it out, test it, break it and flag it under github.com/tirbofish/proton-sdk-rs2

BTW: Yes I'm aware about the proton drive cli, however the CLI does not have FUSE capabilities.

The new Proton Drive CLI v0.8.0 is out. We focused mostly on UX based on the feedback we got.

• General help is now expanded to tell you about fs and other shortcuts,
• CLI gives you hints what commands you probably meant if you use ambiguous shortcut (for example, you can type just fs and it will list all commands for given category, easier discovery),
• version command also tells you if the CLI is up-to-date,
• help for upload and download commands explains in detail what various conflict strategies do,
• and finally, we reworked conflict strategies to be more explicit and tailored for each operation instead of using general terms that was leading to major confusion (with that, we had to remove setting conflict strategy for both files and folders, now it must be specified separately),
• and also some bug fixing as usual.

For example, fs up -h:

Options:
    -f, --file-conflict-strategy STRATEGY
                             Conflict strategy applied to files. Values:
                             * create-new-revision: Create a new revision of the
                             existing file.
                             * rename: Add a unique suffix to the name.
                             * replace: Trash the remote file or folder and
                             upload the local copy.
                             * skip: Skip the conflicting file or folder.
    -d, --folder-conflict-strategy STRATEGY
                             Conflict strategy applied to folders. Values:
                             * merge: Merge folder contents.
                             * rename: Add a unique suffix to the name.
                             * replace: Trash the remote file or folder and
                             upload the local copy.
                             * skip: Skip the conflicting file or folder.

https://proton.me/download/drive/cli/index.html

When will iOS File support on Drive iOS App be back? This is a critical feature that was always available until a recent App update.

For dedicated Proton Unlimited users, the lack of iOS File support in Drive app is a major issue.

I got an iOS update notification that there wasn’t enough space on my phone to install the new update, which I thought was strange because I’m mostly cloud based and very, very rarely have files offline.

I did get back from a trip where I took a lot of videos in 4K so I was sure that was the culprit…but nope, not really. After deleting a bunch I was still pretty short of the 17.33 GB free space needed.

Turns out Proton Drive was taking up like 10 GB of cache data. I even went to check if I downloaded some massive file offline by mistake. Nope, not a single file downloaded offline. It was all just cache taking up a ton of space in third behind Messages and Photos.

I’d love to say it improved performance on my phone or in Proton Drive but it largely seems to have done nothing but allow me to download the latest iOS version.

I did not do this, but there’s an option to clear your cache from the iPhone Storage setting. I deleted the cache from within the Proton Drive app. It’s probably the same thing, but reader beware if you do one over the other.

Happy to be wrong on this one, but the main reason I think most people consider moving their photos (and files in general I suppose) from the likes of Google to Proton is under the guise of "privacy". But, I'd imagine that most people are in the situation of having 100s/1000s of photos already in Google and surely any data scraping or info about you is already done by Google. Moving your photos to Proton doesn't magically stop Google knowing that data? Sure, future photos will be secured, but isn't this just a case of shutting the door after the horse has bolted for most of us?

Is there a roadmap ahead to add more photo centered features to proton drive, or a dedicated photos app?

Right now the drive is pretty much only good for cold storage and is a hassle looking through or managing a large photo and video library.

Some features that I feel should be standard are search-ability in the mobile app: Object and facial recognition, and an index of your photos on a map so you can view them by location. We already know that this can be done if we look at Ente and iCloud. Facial and object indexing happens locally on the device keeping everything e2ee.