Please, allow us to mirror the Photos stored in proton Drive into a Windows folder of our choosing, so we can always access out photos across multiple devices. Having to access the Proton Drive website just to see my photos while using my PC is not ideal.

Honestly, I think this feature is as important as having a dedicated Photos app on Android / iOS.

The Proton Drive desktop app for macOS syncs "My files" locally via Finder, but the "Photos" library is only accessible via web or mobile - not as a local folder.

-> This makes bulk local metadata editing (EXIF/IPTC) impossible without manually downloading, editing, deleting the cloud copy, and re-uploading - impractical for large photo collections, e.g. during a Google Photos migration.
Duplicate cleanup is the single biggest pain point. After a Goggle Photo the libraries typically contain thousands of exact and near-duplicates. Reliable duplicate detection needs perceptual hashing and
side-by-side review — this is only efficient with dedicated third-party desktop tools working directly on local files, which requires the library to be mirrored on disk in the first place.

Request:
• Mirror "Photos" locally in Finder, like "My files".

The lack of this basic feature is a deal-breaker for me in an otherwise nice product.
When I take photos with my phone, I need to be able to view and work with them easily on PC.
Having to open the web client all the time just to download new photos isn't realistic.

Photos should never have been synced to a separate directory in the first place. All data in Proton Drive is presumably encrypted the same, so why force camera roll uploads into a different location?

Even if photos remain in a separate directory, what is the point of uploading them if I cannot see them in Windows after syncing Proton Drive? I refuse to login to the web just to see my own photos.

Until Proton fixes this, I simply can't use the photo upload feature. It is half-baked and very frustrating coming from Google Drive.

Please Proton add this functionality.

Only workaround I found is to synch the camera folder to proton file and than keep the photos in offline mode.

By now I've unfortunately gotten used to the fact that when I start using a certain Proton service, I quickly find that one or more features that would be considered basic features in the offerings of most competitors are absent, and that when I go to Proton Uservoice here I find that there is already a highly upvoted feature request for it that is multiple years old.

I'm now at the point where whenever Proton announces the launch of a new service I only feel annoyance. Annoyance that launching new services seemingly continues to be way more important to Proton than adding missing basic features to existing services that users have been asking for for years.

Why is this not a thing after 2,5 years? If you automatically backup your photo's on mobile, you should be able to access that backup on your PC. Seems like a basic feature to me!

Come on, surely this is not too hard. Dropbox can do it, into a folder called "Camera Roll" but feel free to allow that to be configured or use "Camera Backup" or such. Please, I'm trying to get rid of Dropbox, but you are putting roadblocks up.

I don't understand how this isn't a thing. Just put the photos in a folder, even if it's a separate one under proton drive that would be acceptable, I just hate having to go to the website to access my photos on desktop.

Proton heavily promoted the use of Drive to backup photos from a phone. So after several months, I decide to give it a try and backup 80GB of photos to Drive. Then I look to sync them to my hard drive. Where are they? How do I make this happen? Turns out it cannot be done! Proton, please stop pushing your half-baked services, or please continue to bake them until they are reasonably done. This is so disappointing. Want to love you, but then I discover this sh... How can you keep bashing big tech when you don't provide the basics? So disappointing. Disappointing. Disappointing.

How can it be you see the Photos in the web app but they are not synced to the desktop app? How useless can a product be??

I cannot find my Android backup photos in Proton Drive for Windows.People commonly use Drive apps to move files between phones, PCs, and Macs.

Microsoft OneDrive or Google Drive can do this. Frankly, of Windows Proton Drive app cannot do this it is worthless to me.

Very sad, as I am a huge Proton fan.

The current situation is confusing.

We really need this. It is impossible to migrate photos from other services through the web client.

It is critical!

Automatically syncing photos to the drive, visible and accessible from mobile, web or desktop app for macOS and iOS are essential, essential!
I recently subscribed a family plan, have been trying to figure out and understand how each products work. I must say that, how the drive works is frustrating and disappointing so far, that I have been working on it for almost a week and counting.
Now that I found this 'uservoice' page and realised that it is a known issue for some time, it does not make me feel much hopeful about it.
Please resolve the issue and make improvement now.

Pretty amazed this isn't already part of the standard offering. Decided to take the plunge with Proton suite but this is a deal breaker for me and will be making use of the 30 day money back guarantee. The idea of backups is frictionless replication. Why prevent standard practice?

This is an absolute must

The Drive photo upload is completely useless if I can't see the photos in the drive... It doesn't make any sense.