Manage user rights on shared files or folders
when sharing a folder or a file, it would be great to be able to choose the other users' rights, like:
- View only
- Modification of the file (or add/remove files for a shared folder)
- Resharing
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Epm30 commented
This is absolutely essential. Especially to migrate my family to Proton Drive.
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Robert MacGregor commented
View-only disallows file download. This feature is present in sync.com. Usage scenario: sharing material between a business and clients. Business team members can edit/download, some clients can edit, some clients can comment, everyone else can view only.
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Julia R. commented
This gets me in the uncomfortable situation that I suggested this drive to others to work together on an important project and it does not fulfill the purpose after everyone installed it. I was not thinking about a possible lack of this feature in 2024.
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Alex commented
to add to this feature: possibility to give upload rights to people receiving a link. This allows to collect pictures from a bunch of people who participated to an event together, or to organize events together. I believe this functionality is one of the things that keep people from moving completely from Google Drive... Please help us get rid of them for good!
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GW commented
Also, downloading Proton Drive to a Mac is buggy. Can't get it to work so I'll be patient. Love what the Proton team is doing -- keep up the good work!
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soulton commented
@Zeenos While I am confident the Proton team is competent and can and will implement this in due time, I think it is a fair bit more complicated than you realize. Look at their article on Proton Drive's encryption model and tell me it ain't complicated lol. I'd rather they take their time to ensure these features are implemented securely rather than rush it and get hacked. Patience... 🙏
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Zeenos commented
Dear Proton-Team,
I have been a paying and happy customer for years, your service is close to perfect and as the others before me wrote this would be a critical feature to get your service to almost perfect for me.
Also it has been years since this feature was started to be requested and it aint that complicated I cant imagine.
Please consider adding this feature. Thank you. -
Gene commented
Proton Team, are you listening and can you give some kind of a response? Someone from last August in the comments section summarized it perfectly well when he said: "Why would you create a cloud drive where users can't upload to shared folders???????" The ability to have a shared drive for team members is a feature that needed to exist from day 1.
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Fabian commented
Should be mandatory. That would lead me from PCloud or Tresorit to Proton Drive.
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Anonymous commented
Having a shared photo album/folder is one of the main ways I would use protondrive. This would be a huge improvement.
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evttg commented
I have not used this feature yet, but I would have taken it for granted that user rights was available.
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DC commented
This is critical to users switching to Proton from Google. I was actually surprised & disappointed to find this feature wasn't available from Proton.
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Kevin Koeven commented
Needs to happen in order to make Proton a viable alternative to privacy leeches like Google etc.
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Timothy Marois commented
100% this is a must. I just cancelled my family plan because the sharing of folders are not actually within family members and are just guest links. This makes family plans almost completely useless aside from sharing the pass vaults. Not enough features for family plans for $30/mo. Way too expensive without more family specific sharing features. I'll stay on the $2.99/mo until then.
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CaptMerciless Merciless commented
This is a critical must. I was expecting this from the beginning.
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Keno commented
Critical, this is the biggest missing feature.
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R commented
This is extremely important, especially with the family plan. Otherwise we'll need to default to other cloud sharing platforms for this functionality.
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Justin commented
This is a critical missing feature of drive. As a Family plan user, not having shared folders between family members makes Drive completely useless.
With Photo backup coming, if I can’t use a shared folder with my spouse, that feature will also be a non-starter for me.
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Steven commented
People have been asking for this feature over on the Proton Drive subreddit for over a year.
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JC commented
One-way sharing is ok but what is this, 2002? Folder collaboration with other in-house users is essential to any cloud-based storage system. This is close to being as big as a fumble as Proton Calendar.