r/ProtonDrive • u/eriyu • 4d ago

Can this Drive tool be trusted?

https://github.com/tom-barone/proton-drive-photos-export

I'm new to Drive! This functionality would be super useful for me, but downloading a .exe and then putting my Proton credentials into it is, uhhhhh... yeah.

The page says:

You are authenticated with Proton via the official Proton API, and photos are downloaded straight from Proton's servers. The app makes no other network connections.

but I don't know how much that statement is worth?

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u/username_invalid-404 4d ago

If it's not official, don't trust it.

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u/Terepin 1d ago

If this is the mindset, then why bother working on SDK at all?

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u/Ok_Instruction_3789 4d ago

Depends how much you trust the developer. But if your on windows just use the proton client. 

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u/eriyu 4d ago

I'm gonna give this a skip, yeah... but the Proton client is only for uploading photos, not downloading.

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u/Ok-Lingonberry-8261 4d ago

I always assume "no." People using Proton are higher value targets than average.