File Search
Filename based Search functionality within Proton Drive...
I don't necessarily mean searching for File-Content, this is difficult to achieve in a fully encrypted setting (albeit not impossible, if the indexing tool would run local or in a sand-boxed mode and the actual index database would be stored as a file on the actual encrypted proton drive account.... )
But rather just a search for file name (even partial names etc...)
D Gentile
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ArtemisPrime
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I'd just assumed this was possible when I started using Drive on Android. It seems such a basic requirement
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Zeke commented
I started using Proton from 2023, can't believe the file searching functionality is still missing in 2025, even just searching by file names.
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Coerv
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I didn’t know, there’s no search function. Somehow the way the proton drive syncs to my computer, doesn’t even allow to search them locally with spotlight.
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Tundor
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The lack of proper search is my main reason why I have to stick with Google Drive. I would love to switch but if I cannot run OCR search it's not usable for me. i am fine to accept some restrictions, like only working with an offline index, but right now I could not find any of my documents which defeats the purpose of working payperless.
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Florin MANEA commented
C;mon guys….sync.com have end to end encryption and they has implemented search functionality….how avout proton drive….don t give up guys, this pathetic search function is posibile , see your competition, they can. How about you?
Search is massivley useful functionality, can t see a cloud drive without this.
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SB
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I am using the Drive app on android. When on the move, I need to search for something especially scanned documents. It had happened many times now since I migrated from GDrive and OneDrive, when you need to search for a file quickly that you know you have somewhere in the drive but cannot find it when most needed.
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J
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I would add to this: advanced search filters. So we can use glob/regex to search for files (even recursively)