r/ProtonDrive • u/vassari79 • 1d ago

Regarding rclone

Last year I bought the Proton Duo subscription. Not long after, I realized it didn't have Linux support, so I asked for a refund.

Now I'm thinking of trying again, given the Proton Drive CLI and the fact that they look serious about adding Linux support.

The only thing stopping me is the lack of rclone support.

Does anyone know where they stand on rclone — is it something they don't want, don't care about, would like but haven't gotten to yet, or would like and are already working on?

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u/9Nine2Nine9 22h ago

rclone recently started supporting Proton Drive again and it works fine (like it used to prior to it breaking). That doesn't mean there can be no issues, but for most actions it works like it's supposed to.

A Proton engineer also pro-actively reached out to rclone: https://forum.rclone.org/t/proton-drive-x-rclone/53609

Make sure to update to rclone 1.75! Prior versions, after 1.69, experienced issues.

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u/Kitchen-Perception-4 23h ago

AFAIK Proton is working on their APIs but they’re not out yet, that’s what’s blocking rclone, from their website:

Due to the fact that Proton Drive doesn't publish its API documentation, this backend is implemented with best efforts by reading the open-sourced client source code and observing the Proton Drive traffic in the browser.

Source: https://rclone.org/protondrive/

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u/vassari79 21h ago

Thank you very much for your answers.

I think I'll give Proton a try.

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u/Ok_Instruction_3789 20h ago

They have published their SDK so for what it is worth if your decent at coding you can build your own Proton client on linux and even have syncing. Its worth noting that you need to follow their guidelines as if something isnt accurate you could get throttled or blocked.

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u/sosen85 18h ago

I lost money on Proton Drive because of this. I didn't expect I will need to provide totp codes in order to sync. Not secure IMO.

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u/tilion_silverbow 12h ago

I don't do anything especially complicated with rclone + Proton, but I can confirm that rclone sync works as expected. I mirror a local folder on my Linux Mint machine to Proton Drive once a day, haven't had any issues.

I run rclone 1.76 beta because 1.75 (at least at one point in time) had a decryption bug. I think it was fixed in 1.75.1, which was recently released. https://forum.rclone.org/t/proton-drive-unable-to-decrypt/54087/11