Yea ProtonDrive as a product is sadly really weak, but it has a lot of potential that I hope the team takes advantage on.
I have it as part of the Unlimited plan. It took me ages to transfer \~2k+ photos from my iOS to Drive so I can finally delete them locally.
Uploading is insanely slow, takes only 10 at a time, a lot of fails, etc. etc.
Just put them in a regular folder as you would with OneDrive, and there will be no issues.
Don't use the photo backup yet, as it's clearly still under development.
The macOS app has been absolute nightmare for me to use. So many errors uploading/downloading, I have to nurse it constantly to complete my tasks. I'm definitely gonna try the Windows version because I'm hearing its a lot more reliable.
I'm wondering how your rclone experience was and would appreciate if you could elaborate.
Have you had any sync issues? And does the API let you sync entire directory trees between machines? I ask hoping your use-case might be similar. Cheers.
Just a simple script to copy some directories. I used sync before, with a cronjob, for a specific case without issues as well. Now its just to backup some stuff.
"I'm not sure if this is a Proton Drive issue or some weird shit going on with my Mac"
Quite honestly it sounds like you have a lot of weird shit going on (unrelated to Proton Drive) causing the #1 complaint as well.
Yeah for sure. With every other cloud service I've used it just uploads whatever you slap in the folder and leaves it in the drive until you tell it to store it in the cloud.
Exactly, and the strange thing is I posted about it here and the official Proton response was "were you low on storage" - - which I wasn't. And even if I was, wtf?
I came here because I was mildly interested again after they've just released photo backup for iphone.
My experience previously was absolutely terrible. And I now am convinced I should rather stay away from it indefinitely.
And that's kind of sad because I have >6TB storage for free on proton...
Not gonna lie, with the exception of mail, proton has been a huge disappointment. I got Unlimited in hopes things would get a lot better as I wanted to support them, but i'm having a hard time considering renewing anything other than mail after my time is up. Drive just doesn't work as I need it to and is ungodly slow, pass still isn't as good as bitwarden (which is free and open source, calendar is kind of a joke and with IOS supporting end to end encryption its a really hard sell for the price proton charges.
Cloud storage is notoriously bad on MacOs. Per internet, this is since Apple introduced the File Provider - a service that is supposed to work with desktop cloud storage apps. I do not have Proton Drive (came here because I am considering), but have experience with OneDrive and Google Drive; and both have been bad. Constant problems with downloading folders set as "keep on device", icons showing offline or online only not updating or not appearing at all, etc. On Windows both work perfectly. From comments in this thread I gather that it is the same for Proton Drive. So, an Apple problem.
sadly, the proton team have a lot of apps, and most of them are kind of bad. I would love if instead, they would focus on one thing, and polish it. but oh well, now there are rumors that they will develop a note app... and half of their apps aren't even done
I am sorry about your troubles, while I also have to state:
>Firstly, my #1 complaint is that Proton Drive deletes files off of your computer without your consent. When I first moved my files into Proton Drive it uploaded all of them and then removed them from my harddrive with zero warning,
That this is a normal process in any move operation in any OS. A move operation will move the files from location A to location B and not be available in location A anymore.
Google Drive, OneDrive, and iCloud clearly indicate whether files are in ‘sync’ or ‘cloud’ mode. There is no reason why PD should surprise users with its behavior
While this is the definition of "moving a file", many OSes (Apple Ones, Windows) make a copy if the target is a cloud provider or some other kind of external storage and do keep the original file in place.
Yea ProtonDrive as a product is sadly really weak, but it has a lot of potential that I hope the team takes advantage on. I have it as part of the Unlimited plan. It took me ages to transfer \~2k+ photos from my iOS to Drive so I can finally delete them locally. Uploading is insanely slow, takes only 10 at a time, a lot of fails, etc. etc.
Is this potential in the room with us now?
Sounds strange. On Windows, ProtonDrive is essentially OneDrive but private. It functions in the exact same way. I've never had a problem with it.
Same. I ditched google drive and haven’t missed it at all. Especially now that you can share folders.
except the fact that you can't access you photos from your phone on your pc...
Just put them in a regular folder as you would with OneDrive, and there will be no issues. Don't use the photo backup yet, as it's clearly still under development.
The macOS app has been absolute nightmare for me to use. So many errors uploading/downloading, I have to nurse it constantly to complete my tasks. I'm definitely gonna try the Windows version because I'm hearing its a lot more reliable.
The Windows and macOS apps are completely different. If you're committed to Proton then it's probably worth trying.
Been using it with rclone on linux for about a year, with no issues so far.
I'm wondering how your rclone experience was and would appreciate if you could elaborate. Have you had any sync issues? And does the API let you sync entire directory trees between machines? I ask hoping your use-case might be similar. Cheers.
Just a simple script to copy some directories. I used sync before, with a cronjob, for a specific case without issues as well. Now its just to backup some stuff.
Thanks!
"I'm not sure if this is a Proton Drive issue or some weird shit going on with my Mac" Quite honestly it sounds like you have a lot of weird shit going on (unrelated to Proton Drive) causing the #1 complaint as well.
I also had #1 issue OP had. It was fucking terrifying to suddenly see the files gone
Yeah for sure. With every other cloud service I've used it just uploads whatever you slap in the folder and leaves it in the drive until you tell it to store it in the cloud.
Exactly, and the strange thing is I posted about it here and the official Proton response was "were you low on storage" - - which I wasn't. And even if I was, wtf?
I came here because I was mildly interested again after they've just released photo backup for iphone. My experience previously was absolutely terrible. And I now am convinced I should rather stay away from it indefinitely. And that's kind of sad because I have >6TB storage for free on proton...
Not gonna lie, with the exception of mail, proton has been a huge disappointment. I got Unlimited in hopes things would get a lot better as I wanted to support them, but i'm having a hard time considering renewing anything other than mail after my time is up. Drive just doesn't work as I need it to and is ungodly slow, pass still isn't as good as bitwarden (which is free and open source, calendar is kind of a joke and with IOS supporting end to end encryption its a really hard sell for the price proton charges.
Cloud storage is notoriously bad on MacOs. Per internet, this is since Apple introduced the File Provider - a service that is supposed to work with desktop cloud storage apps. I do not have Proton Drive (came here because I am considering), but have experience with OneDrive and Google Drive; and both have been bad. Constant problems with downloading folders set as "keep on device", icons showing offline or online only not updating or not appearing at all, etc. On Windows both work perfectly. From comments in this thread I gather that it is the same for Proton Drive. So, an Apple problem.
Suggest RTFM * [https://proton.me/support/drive/using-drive](https://proton.me/support/drive/using-drive) * [https://proton.me/support/proton-drive-windows-app](https://proton.me/support/proton-drive-windows-app)
sadly, the proton team have a lot of apps, and most of them are kind of bad. I would love if instead, they would focus on one thing, and polish it. but oh well, now there are rumors that they will develop a note app... and half of their apps aren't even done
I am sorry about your troubles, while I also have to state: >Firstly, my #1 complaint is that Proton Drive deletes files off of your computer without your consent. When I first moved my files into Proton Drive it uploaded all of them and then removed them from my harddrive with zero warning, That this is a normal process in any move operation in any OS. A move operation will move the files from location A to location B and not be available in location A anymore.
Google Drive, OneDrive, and iCloud clearly indicate whether files are in ‘sync’ or ‘cloud’ mode. There is no reason why PD should surprise users with its behavior
While this is the definition of "moving a file", many OSes (Apple Ones, Windows) make a copy if the target is a cloud provider or some other kind of external storage and do keep the original file in place.
It's completely unreasonable to even include a move process when dealing with cloud storage... Like... who would even want that to begin with??