Sync Photos folder with desktop app
With the Android app we can now backup our photos to the Photos category/folder in Proton Drive and we can view these in the web app.
Please add the option to sync these photos to a computer folder with the
desktop app as well.
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Sebastian Smith commented
We definitely need this
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David Beckett commented
Please🥺
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Jon commented
Guys, please add Photos to the Desktop app. It makes no sense that it's not there. It should just be a Folder in the Files like every other cloud provider does...
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Paolo commented
I Just realized that Photos uploaded from the phone on the Proton Drive cloud are then not synced to my Proton Drive app in my Windows computer.
WHY??????
This design choice makes no sense and it's incredible that it's a missing feature.
Please implement it ASAP -
Arno Nym commented
Wow, i didnt even question the existence of a cross device sync and currently I'm pretty disappointed, because this is a core feature missing!
Please rank this up!!! I want to access my docs from the PC on the go on my phone and vice versa see my mobile phone's pictures on the PC (See them on a bigger display, share them, edit them...)
What is an enduser supposed to do with the Proton drive clients - do a cloud backup use the file in the browser/download the manually?
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EG commented
Je viens de m'abonner et je n'avais pas fait attention. Je ne peux pas passer complétement à Proton sans cette fonction. Fonction TRES IMPORTANTE !
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Sebastian commented
We are waiting way too long for important Proton Drive features like specific folder sync, Linux Client and many more. It's really a mess and I don't want to wait anymore so unforuntately I will have to stop my membership and switch to another provider.
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Your Name commented
This is actually unacceptable. If I had known about this limitation I would not have signed up for the premium plan. To view my photos on a computer I have to resort to an alternative method of copying them from the phone. This "feature" request is almost 12 months old and this critical functionality has not been implemented, yet.
I am pretty sure that this is the most used function and the expectation is to view photos on the desktop, not only via web or on the phone.
This has to change quickly.
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TJ Ilves commented
Really waiting for this one. Without having photo backups in desktop, Dropbox still have it's place. Superb feature for photographers that should be number one option when offering photo backups. And sync with original date when photo taken, even better if creating folders like year-mm-dd.
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Brian commented
I just signed up for proton and uploaded my photos. I was disappointed that there isn't a linux drive client, so I can't really get my photos back out on my main computer. Now this post is basically telling me there isn't a mac client either. I can't imagine who's paying for and backing up hundreds of gigs of data in a proton drive without photos -- drive client without photo access seems kind of pointless? Without a drive client I may not be able to renew, though I've already pre-paid for a year.
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Kevin commented
I synced my photos to Proton Drive, but can only access them from the app or the browser. It would be really useful to see them in the Proton Drive Files to easy watch, sort, edit and delete them.
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Kevin de Bie commented
Yes this seems like a glaring omission.
I don't for the life of me understand why "Photo's" appears to be some kind of seperate storage and is not just a folder on your Proton drive.
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Sylvain Huguet commented
This is the ONE feature I am missing in Drive (along with "sending a file to Proton Drive" on iOS) to really make the transition from Dropbox to Proton bearable...
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lanawwas commented
I recently transitioned from OneDrive to Proton Drive and have been extremely happy with the experience so far. I now rely on Proton Drive more than my locally hosted NextCloud instance, primarily due to long-term cost efficiency and the mitigation of hardware failure risks.
That said, I do have a suggestion for improvement: it would be great to see better photo sync features across platforms. Currently, photos backed up from an Android phone don’t sync with the Windows app. And the photo folder is not shown on the windows drive app. Leading to duplicates and insuficient storage managment
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Kuro commented
Yes please this is a gap that needs to be filled. I was using OneDrive before trying Proton and the OneDrive desktop app presents photo access along with everything else.
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Mark “Katzi” Pointon commented
This should be a #1 priority.
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DJ commented
the photos folder should be like any folder
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lle2024 commented
Very important feature for someone who wants to categorise, filter, sort, group, etc. their photos with an app on the pc, like digiKam. One thing to take into account in this, is the sync/backup semantics. What happens if I change some attributes of a picture (e.g. marking it as a favorite) on the phone after the backup/sync of these photos, changes will probably not pe propagated to the desktop; and what happens if I change some attibutes on the desktop. They won`t propagate back to the phone. I would prefer a sync of the photos between the cloud and the phone and the cloud and the desktop. Of course, this then is not a backup, so backup functionality should be realized by saving versions of the pictures with the possibility of going back in time for the whole foto repository. Of Course, then some other questions arise, e.g. how would I delete photos from the phone, e.g. to save space, without deleting them from the repository (the cloud and the desktop). It's not trivial at all. For now I would be happy with the possibiltiy of a sync of the fotos between proton cloud and desktop in both directions. Some clear statements would be necessary, whicht changes are propagated to which side and how this would influence the backup from the phone to the cloud (I miss these statements, or I at least haven't found them, about the current backup mechanism for the fotos backup anyway)
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Yury Nasonov commented
I was extremely surprized that I can not move my photos that were synced from android to an existing folder in Proton Drive. So basically when you take photos you usually want to sort them and it is not possible...
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Yann commented
and syncing with mac OS desktop photos app library, too