The workflow for alerting existing files is absurd, even for a basic text file. Doesn't matter if I click Save or Save As, the only way to do this atm is to locate and delete the original file from Drive first... slow process compared to what drives have been able to do since last century

I'm on Android

Desperately needed in the mobile app. I have way too many files with an autoincrement suffix in their file names.

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.

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.
Thanks Proton team for developing Proton Drive, it is great.

I think this would be quite the useful feature.

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.

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.

Isn't this implemented already? Why hasn't the company closed this request

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.

This would be a very handy feature for those of us who want to keep multigenerational copies of important files so should one become corrupted, a alternate recent copy would still be available. Being able to keep multigenerational copies of the same file is offered by many other cloud providers and makes it so even automated backups will work properly and keep generational backups that are date stamped should ransomware or other hazards damage a recent copy.

Similar for directories, with the option to merge contents

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

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.

I'd very much like to see this implemented, too.

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.