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

We definitely need this

Please🥺

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...

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

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?

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 !