File versioning / prompt with options before file overwrite
Please add this feature to ProtonDrive (tested in WebBrowser). When uploading file to ProtonDrive which is already uploaded (based on path and file name) - enable user select one of three options (probably configurable and/or ask user per file/upload session on file conflict):
1. Add file with new name (existing functionality which appends (nn) to newly uploaded file name).
2 Overwrite existing file with newly uploaded one (without possibility to restore overwritten files, or move previous version to Trash).
3. Add new version to existing file (previous versions can be downloaded via new UI). Enable maximum number/size of file versions to be configured in app/web.
Third option will be usable in future when desktop synchronization app will be implemented. This will enable to restore previously uploaded versions.
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Per Kjellsen commented
I’m working with archiving software and versioning of files is pretty central.
Could you implement a feature / button for uploading a new version - not just by uploading a new file with same name and format - to create versioning.
Also in the gui it should say which verion is the active one.
I'm using Proton drive as my personal digital archive now and that is a pretty neat and necessary function.
Google drive has this function btw.
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Franco Malora commented
Proton Drive mobile app does not prompt user when trying to upload a file already existing in the cloud. This feature is available in the webapp, which asks to choose between replace, overwrite or skip the file(s). This is very useful, specially because avoids to load multiple copies of the same file by mistake, which can be particularly critical on mobile or when band width is limited.
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Anonymous commented
I think this would be quite the useful feature.
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Rene commented
I have used this function on Onedrive quite a lot.
Sometimes you overwrite a file by accident and need to go back (restore) the previous file.
Also, if you are hit by ransomeware it would be nice to get the previous versions back. -
Todd P commented
Would also be nice to upload a new version of a document provided from another person. For example, if I have provided comments to a client and they return a document with additional comments, it would be great to add my client's document as a new version of the document.
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John commented
Yes, this is very important for those of us who do generational backups which we want to be time stamped in case we need to go and fetch one from the history archive. If one gets hit by ransomware, it may be possible to rebuild much or all of the file structure if automated generational backups are done. Several cloud providers allow for generational backups, which is very nice.
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WildWeazel commented
I use ProtonDrive as a backup for important files on my PC. When updating my backups I chose directory upload, expecting it to either overwrite or ignore existing files, but instead it created a new "directory (1)" and started uploading all of the files again there.
It would be great to do one of more of the following when uploading a directory name that already exists:
Prompt me to rename the directory
Let me choose whether to replace, duplicate, or ignore conflicting file names
Automatically merge the directories and do one of the above on a file-by-file basis -
Anonymous commented
Sometimes it is annoying that new files uploaded with the name of an already existing file will get a parenthesed number in their filenames. It would be much more comfortable to have a versioning (and/or overwriting) function, that preserves the original name.
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Ron commented
When uploading a new version of an existing document into ProtonDrive, auto-recognize the new version and ask if user wants file to added as a new version or new file completely. Tresorit does this.