Sync file deletion between local and cloud storage
In the proton drive app, you choose folders to sync to the cloud. But when you delete a file from Proton Drive, its local copy is not deleted from your computer. However, when delete a local file, its cloud copy is automatically deleted.
This can cause problems, for example if you rename or otherwise edit a local file that is in a synced folder but whose cloud copy you have deleted, it's going to create a new cloud copy of it.
My suggestion: Adding two new toggles in the settings. One that would make it so that when you delete a file from your cloud, its local copy would be deleted too. And another one that would allow the user to choose whether the cloud copy of a file should be removed when the local version of this file is deleted.
This feature would improve the user experience by avoiding confusion and duplication of files, as well as saving storage space and bandwidth. It would also enhance the security and privacy of the users by ensuring that their files are deleted from both locations when they want to. Users would have the option to enable or disable this feature according to their preferences and needs.
Luna
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bldgzr
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When you sign out of Proton Drive on a local computer, Mac or Windows, the synced copies of the files remain unencrypted on your local disk.
There are three simple use cases here that could be facilitated by options on the sign-out page.
1. Securely remove all data from the local disk
2. Encrypt the locally stored data until the user signed in again
3. Leave the data as is, open and insecure - the current behaviour.This would allow the user to choose how their data is handled when signing out.
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Kevin
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Agreed. Really frustrating that there is no two-way sync.
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Devin Clark
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We would need a cleanup feature to go along with this - I would use the google photos cleanup to delete my local content and keep it cloud only.
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Robert N
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Yes. I noticed this when I accidentally deleted a file from my synced area on my laptop. Proton Drive then synced and deleted the file everywhere! I want some area where I can save important archives, where it is harder to delete it, and it is not necessarily synced to a local drive by default.
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Tobilos
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Please put your votes to "Exclude folders/files" and close this ideally. The feature would solve this issue (server only files), in a more elegant and flexible way.
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[Deleted User]
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This is a necessary feature.
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user8447
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For me a must have, proton drive as a service (not having to be logged in to sync files) and files not syncing to other devices, only to the cloud.
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Rick
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Yes, or at least an option to turn this on and off. It's irritating when a bunch of photos are taken, then later culled on the phone, but it was too late on the drive, which was already synced.
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MK
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When deleting a photo from your gallery, it should be removed from Proton Drive Photos as well, and vice versa. It is really inconvenient having to go to both apps to delete photos you've taken. It should still also be possible to free up space on your phone by deleting local copies, maybe through the Drive app.
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Anonymous
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It should be an option to activate/deactivate this functionality. When it si ON the proton folder should be deleted when logout from drive.
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Tyler
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This would be very nice to have (kind of like OneDrive vault) to store important/sensitive information.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/onedrive/personal-vault
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Ian Adams commented
Absolutely this. Apparently you can create vaulted files by dragging them into the browser specifically, but this is confusing and not intuitive. I'm currently using Sync.com and really want to switch to Proton Drive, but this feature needs to exist more intuitively. With sync, I can just add files to my vault. They can be both synced and backed up (though id have to move them if something updated, and thats fine). I want a way to secure my files in case of drive failure or some other event. currently, if my drive dies, my files die.
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Mike McD
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I would LOVE to be able to rsync my homelab backups to proton!
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dork473
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I would like it if when i log the protondrive app out (from the pc itself or remotely) to have it delete the local files of protondrive aswell.
When i have used protondrive for a bit on a computer, after that i have to logout and then manually delete the folder to make sure no-one has access to my files afterwards.
This is a feature that should atleast have exsisted if you remote logout the app from the browser (like dropbox has incase the device is lost / stolen)
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Merroing
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This is very important for cloud backup. All other cloud drive have this feature
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Andrew Furmanczyk commented
Agree fully. This is critical for proton drive to be useable.
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Reuhno
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I want to upload a lot of photos actually saved on an external SSD drive...
If I copy files in ProtonDrive folder (Mac App), it takes a lot of space on my internal drive.
I would like to set "online only" folders to save my local space.
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k1ng
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You can do this by establishing a file share on a windows server with the protondrive windows app. Not my preferred workflow but works for now until they get a better setup together.
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Serg
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If I put files in the folder synchronized with proton drive, they still take place on my physical drive. I want them to be only on remote proton drive, but visible in my local drive. For example, to make options in a context menu to download selected files to the physical drive or exclude them from physical drive, but live them remotely
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Leni
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