This is blowing my mind that these rudimentary features are not available:
1) Ability to choose which folders to sync
2) Configure synced folders to only be one way or both (I don't keep every single file on my local device)
3) Ability to exclude file types/extensions (such as ISO's or backups)
4) Ability to map a network drive to my NAS, and have it sync directly from my NAS. Or allow tools like rsync/rclone to function from my NAS directly.

I absolutely love everything about Proton, but Drive is absolutely killing me...

Without this feature, Proton Drive is not really usable for development projects. My Drive is already perma-syncing for half a month, just because of a couple of node_modules and .git folders.

Need to exclude node_modules and other similar folders/files from sync:) Without it I can't use the proton drive :(

It would make more sense to synchronize the files virtually like with Nextcloud, OneDrive and GoogleDrive and only download them if desired.

Please also for Linux.... 🙏

A sync system is like a version control system, it is needed for some files, but not for others.
Please implement this asap.

I really hope that this will come soon. Backing up temporary files and coaches to the cloud dies not make sense.

Such a vital feature! Please add it soon!

Syncing all my .git directories is a very bad idea...

Exclude extensions, .tmp, .temp, .dat...

Let the user decide which files or folders to exclude from for example "documents". Programs like Adobe store some files in "Documents"...these are also stored in proton drive, which i didn't want.

Incredible that this fundamental feature is still not implemented. My protondrive get stuck because it has to upload many many node_modules files which are just not necessary to be uploaded since you can just import them on deployement!!!!! FIX THIS ASAAAP

the lack of this is one of the things that most bothers me about using proton drive

Lots of people have already mentioned this. This is a very useful feature. Makes drive more useable. Please prioritize this!

This is the #1 feature request on Dropbox. There's so much money to be made for the devs who implement this. I'm still surprised this isn't built into all those services - after all, they are built by developers - and developers really don't want their package folders, temp files or compiled assets to be synced.

Came here looking for a Dropbox alternative for that exact reason - would have switched in a heartbeat.

This needs to be implemented! It would save energy and therefore money on both ends, proton and the user.

Without this feature, some folders synchronize very slowly and wasteful. Sometimes folders get deleted and uploaded again several times, taking literal hours to be completed.

Please add this feature ! :)

Please add this indispensable feature. We can no longer have our feet in two different places at once.

This should really be a built-in feature of Proton Drive. Implementing something like a `.protonignore` file—similar to what MEGA offers—would be incredibly useful.

As developers, we often deal with clutter generated during compilation or dependency installation, such as `node_modules`, `vendor`, and other temporary files. Being able to exclude these from uploads would streamline workflows and reduce unnecessary storage usage.

Adding an ignore file option could make Proton Drive more appealing to developers and power users alike.

I am shocked this isn't a feature already! Had I known, I might have reconsidered getting the yearly sub... :/

The ability to exclude by default (*.tmp) would probably save you a lot in bandwidth and storage space. not to mention speed up my transfer times.