This is a very crucial feature that is keeping major user adoption to your service. This is a major annoyance for me, but I am not recommending this service to any friends or family that I know need feature.

i need the capability to have one root folder for all my files. no reason to separate photos and computers. the reason is that some of my pics are on the computer and some others on Photos tab with no way to merge the two.

Seems crazy that photos have to be manually downloaded as a zip before we can do anything else with them. I'm sure most people have alternate backup tools for their photos, and this extra step makes managing photos much slower.

100%. Overall it seems a little weird to use and not very streamlined.

There should be 1 main Drive folder that contains all files. Web, desktop, mobile app, file explorer, should all be options to see and open these files, and they should be synced from these places.

As many others have said, photos and videos are files and should be managed like files. This is an essential and basic feature of any file syncing service.

Yes this really needs to be added. I don't want to have to log into the web app to be able to access my phone photos. This is a basic feature of Onedrive, iPhotos, etc...being able to access your photos from your desktop.

This would be a really valuable feature which enables me to move from Dropbox and makes the paid proton subscription really interesting.

Oof, that would be really handy for backups...

C'mon Proton. This is a basic feature.

Two years now...

add this

I am a relatively new Proton user and consider moving off again before I have too many photos in the drive that are inconvenient to access for backups.

This is my main blocker to move completely from Google to Proton. You don't have a way to organize your Photos. If you could just upload them to a regular Folder in the Proton Drive (like on this feature request https://protonmail.uservoice.com/forums/932839-proton-drive/suggestions/46933159-proton-drive-android-app-sync-with-a-local-folde), i can organize the photos in different folders, and we wouldn't even need an Albums feature for now. This photo sync into folder directly is available in Dropbox and Shadow Drive. There was one app tested which i don't remember now, that would even allow to automatically create the folder in the drive separating by year or year-month folder, but just synching to a regular folder is enough.

I now need to keep my dropbox just for photo syncing.

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.