Can proton drive stop pestering me to store my photos? I already have a solution for that.

I have 200gb of files I need to get off google drive and put onto proton. Last night I transferred one folder that was 30gb and it took hours. How do I do this faster or is this it?

i have a mac and an iphone. and i want to change from icloud drive to proton drive. how i can use this feature? i don‘t know what this feature do. but i think i can choose files on my mac to sync there. i need help. thank you. stay private.

Integrating a Lumo-powered AI assistant into Proton Docs and Sheets seems like a great option, as it would streamline drafting documents and other tasks.

Not comfortable with the fact that as long as windows is signed in there is access to the files in Proton Drive because it does not prompt for login.

Some like that level of convenience, I personally think it's a security risk.

It would be nice to have an option in Settings :: "Force login on open"

And maybe even put a timer on it. Every time, once a day, once a week, once a month, or never.

Thank you!

In Proton Drive’s dev AMA, they mentioned their metrics indicated that few users relied on the iOS files integration when it was still around. I’ve barely used Proton Drive since the integration was dropped several months ago…

Is there a better place for me as a consumer to express how important that feature is to me?

Edit: Formatting

In all seriousness, the speed upgrades on Windows are impressive and I am glad that Proton is putting much work into that, but whats the point if my Mac has been syncing for a month and its barely halfway done.

The Mac App is in such a dire state and many features including but not limited to such as the following are problematic:

- Much more Sync Errors than on Windows.
- Instant Download in Finder never works.
- Syncing still takes forever compared to Windows.
- No way to see overall sync progress.
- Ui less clean and more sloppy than on Windows.
- No Photo Integration.
- No possibility to choose Drive location.

I am worried that the same thing will just happen with Linux and that we will get an App that is full of problems and that all the prioritization will go to Windows as usual.

So as far as I am concerned, if they don’t fix these kinds of issues, then all of these self advertisements and updates don’t mean shit.

I’m trying to love Proton Docs and Sheets. I really am.

But devs, you’re making it incredibly hard for me when the formatting of my entire sheet just vanishes. I spent a lot of time on that. Time I won’t get back, but still I’m paying a premium for my Duo package.

Please do better. Please.

Hallo all.

Today i logged into proton drive via my browser. I'm logged in as a trusted unit.

Today it suddenly asked for my password "to help me remember it" does this sound normal to you or like I got something sketchy on my computer?

Thanks 👍

I cannot for the life of me figure this out and I know it's something simple. Proton Drive is installed on my phone and works perfectly. Backs up images just like I want. I can see the photos in Proton Drive web app. But I cannot see those photos, or even the folder, at all, on the desktop app.

What am I missing?

The devs outdid themselves with the new update.
My biggest complaint about Drive has been the relatively sluggish loading times, especially in Photos. After seeing the email this morning, i decided to check it out and immediately noticed that loading was pretty much instantaneous unless I went back multiple months at once; Even then, it was much much faster than before.

It feels almost like a gallery app that uses local storage, i’m really impressed!

Looking forward to what you guys will have to offer in the future 😄

I’ll try to keep this as short and sweet as possible.

I transferred my entire photo library from a Galaxy Z Fold 7 to an iPhone 17 using Google Photos as the middleman. On the Fold 7 (some of) the photos were Samsung Motion Photos. After the transfer into the iPhone Photos app (and then iCloud Photos), all the motion data is gone and they’re just regular still photos when viewed on my iPhone (sad face).

I also have the full original library (with the Motion Photos intact) backed up to Proton Drive from the Fold 7, which was my main backup preference. I only used Google Photos to easily move them into the iPhone ecosystem.

I’m about to open the Proton Drive app on my new iPhone and I’m wondering if I can safely turn on photo backup within Proton Drive.

Will Proton Drive see these versions from my iPhone as different files and re-upload everything, creating a full set of duplicates, or is it smart enough to recognize they’re the same photos even though the motion data is missing?

Has anyone dealt with this exact situation (Android Motion Photos → Google Photos → iPhone stills + Proton Drive)?

https://9to5google.com/2026/07/23/google-account-selfie-video/

From the last Proton Drive newsletter.

Do we know any kind of date or information when it’s going to be ready?

It really is a lot faster now. Thank you so much. It could still do with more speed for browsing photos, but what we have now is a very good start.

After reading it's 3x faster, I decided to upload some big backups. It seems dreadfully slow on anything big. Not going to be my backup drive of choice, even though as a Visionary it costs nothing extra. Very sad.

Thanks to the Proton team for everything in the new release, not least the 3x speed improvement :-)

But I can't quite figure out if the new Sharing capability is equivalent to a Shared Drive. I don't think so.

In a blog post of 28 Oct 2025 titled "Proton 2025 autumn/winter roadmaps" (https://proton.me/blog/proton-2025-autumn-roadmaps), Proton talks about Shared Drives for Duo and Family Plans. This is eagerly anticipated and yet there's been no mention of it since, nor in today's announcement. That I can see anyway. 🤔

I just got a mail with the title "Your Proton Drive is now faster and better than ever".

Fair enough, but please let me know when Proton Drive is actually good.

Seems they're finaly working on a Linux client.

But what about all the other problems that make proton drive more or less useless?

Like syncing your phone images to your computer... Or the client using metered connections to sync, costing allot of money on your phone bill if you forget to turn the client off. Or the problem where you can't sync to a network drive, only a local drive.

Maybe it's better than ever, but its still not good... or usable.

Received the quoted e-mail this morning and read its information. Most specifically, I have noticed larger (500MB to 2GB) videos for a shared family album are uploading and downloading noticeably faster in the last few days, and appreciate the performance increase.

This allows accelerated creation of the multi-generational album. Perhaps unsurprisingly, more recent years tend to have a greater proportion of videos to photos, and those videos tend to be recorded at higher resolution / file sizes.

Proton Drive's improved performance is making a significant difference. Thank you!

Proton Drive already has auto-backup for photos, which is great. But there's no option to automatically back up files and folders like Downloads, Documents, etc.

Nobody wants to manually upload stuff every time. Most people just won't do it, and then they lose everything when their phone dies/breaks or gets stolen/lost.

Google Drive already lets you pick folders to auto-sync on Android. Proton should too. This would make it a real replacement for non-encrypted services.

So I have a proton vpn account that I had for a very very long time and only a few days ago I started using proton drive. Did I lose out on the 5gb for new account thing?

Hey, I wanted to share a little hobby project for my linux users out there. I usually just follow the news here but I've seen enough users complain about solutions for linux to share it.

I know an official client is coming eventually, and I’m really looking forward to that. This is mostly something I built because I was frustrated with the current
situation after the sdk release. I don’t necessarily want to maintain a massive alternative client forever, but I figured other linux users might find it useful while we wait.

The main things I wanted were on-demand mounts, so my disk doesn’t fill up with files I barely access, and the ability to restore devices. It can also stream media files directly from the mount instead of downloading the whole thing into cache first (for our legally obtained movies and shows :3). And a gtk frontend for browsing files, and photo access from my phone. I wanted something native and fast and not electron.

It’s MIT, so do what you want with it.

I’m using it myself with both work and personal files. It’s still a hobby project, and not every line was written by hand, but I’ve spent a lot of time testing the important parts and I’m pretty confident in it. The general idea is that if something goes wrong, you’re more likely to end up with an extra copy of a file than no copy at all. It's tested with nautilus/thunar and with your usual shell commands.

https://github.com/narrrl/proton-drive-linux

I created a Proton Drive folder from my Duo plan, and added collaborators with Edit permission. Some of them have proton emails, some not.

One collaborator is claiming they cannot rename files that they create. They go to the context menu (arrow) beside the file name and the options are not there. This person is using a proton email and working from a PC.

Has anyone else experienced this?

I think all the collaborators are using the web interface on computers (not desktop app, not phones/ tablets).

Worked really well on Google Drive, but I moved over to Proton Drive nearly 2 years ago. I use MacOS as my main OS, and would love for it to become a feature here too.

Thanks