I was shoched when I saw this was not a feature. Needs to be added asap!

Does Proton only read all these messages? I don't feel like it. At a time when many of us prefer to play the European card against the Gafam... it would be time for Proton or a European competitor to take matters seriously into their own hands. Otherwise, many of us will desert these services... especially since they are expensive...

As mentioned by others here; photos are files and should be treated as such. I want to have controll over my photos as files, but its convenient to VIEW them in a "photos tab" or section.

I see that you are working on a "public folder" as well, and just as important is it for me that the files in such a folder (which for me atleast usually are photos) should be viewable in the "photo" section, but stored as a part of "my files".

I also note that it is possible to share files, but not photos (!?). For me, this is a make it or break it moment. Should my family and I be able to use Proton as our main file/email hub, this needs to be smooth.

I'm actually pretty frustrated that I spent 2 days uploading my photos before realizing that this wasn't a feature. Very strange. If I had known I would have at least moved the old photos to a real folder and loaded them as files from PC instead.

I'm considering the use of Proton instead of Dropbox.
I think it's very important to see the photos of my phone in the drive folder and have the opportunity to synchronize them with my computer.

It also NEEDS to be possible to access (download) photos via the API, using something like rclone. This fixes the 'no linux client' issue and also makes it possible to work properly with large photo libraries.

Just signed up for Proton Family to move all my photos from Backblaze Cloud (where I cant preview them) to Proton Drive (where I cant preview them, unless I download them to my phone or laptop and then upload them again in the photos view only).

It seems like the /Photos directory is completely inaccessible from the normal file explorer, or via rclone (syncing to /Photos just creates a new Photos folder in the my files view).

This is just really bad design. Photos are files, and it should be possible to manage them as such.

I want to be able to set the location of 'Photos' to somewhere in 'My Files' and have them preview properly, not have them put in some other location which appears to be inaccessible from the API (at least in rclone).

Had I known my photo uploads would not be visible in MS Explorer after setting up Proton Drive, I may not have purchased Proton Unlimited. This is an essential feature that needs to be implemented yesterday.

Got 500GB+ of photos and videos, took less than a day to download. Gonna take weeks to upload using the web version, avg. upload speed is 1 mb/s on my 1/1gb/s connection.

It is sad to see, and very mediocre - Please add support to better handle this!

And just the icying on the cake... The upload process uses up 30% CPU ( of a 16 core AMD 7950x3D) and 10GB RAM - Really ****** performance :( Just so sad

Switching from Microsoft Onedrive to Proton Drive has been good, but I miss being able to see my Photos from the phone in the Proton Drive folder on my laptop. It is a bit of a hazzle to revert to a webbrowser to get to the photos. I hope you will prioritize this Idea!

Adding a comment to show my support for this feature. Seems like this should've been included from the start. Is there any roadmap where we can track these feature requests?

What? This is not possible? Oh dear...this is INDEED a dealbreaker! Please Proton: Tackle this is FAST as possible.

As my peers, this feature is core

Please sort this out - this is a core feature for any drive application

Agree with the rest of the chorus below that it's ridiculous that we even have to ask for this 'feature'. This feels like table stakes.

as above, please sort it out asap

Can't believe this was not included in winter/spring roadmap

a reason not to use proton...

Deal breaker. Looks like I may go back to other services. Proton Drive and Proton Pass too early. Not on par with competition.

Must have on Mac OS thanks