Can't believe this doesn't exist already. Data portability is critical to ownership of my data. As someone else said, an export feature would ideally include data from ALL Proton services- not just Drive.

Please not just for drive. A full-blown "takeout" should include data from ALL proton services. How I would love to see this implemented is a nice bundled backup file that contains all encrypted data and then a companion tool/script to decrypt everything after punching in the decryption password. I recognize that that may be tricky to do server-side (I have no idea how the DBs are architected or how hard it would be to convert to a portable format).

Another way could be a "Proton Backup Utility" that authenticates to the APIs then pulls everything and decrypts client-side before storing in a portable format. Something like that may be easier to implement, easier to use, and more useful as I could run it on my server or PC and make backups to my NAS or USB drive as I see fit.

The ability to move data freely between service providers is essential. Data lock-in undermines user trust, and I believe most of Proton's user base shares my concern. A genuine batch export feature distinguishes a trustworthy cloud service from one that operates in bad faith.

I'd also be happy with something like Dropbox has - selective sync. In the case of dropbox I ensure everything is sync'd locally, so that I can push it to an external backup.

This is desperately needed!

How is this not a feature yet? I love proton but seriously cant take them seriously when i cant export my data.

This is very important, especially for photos as they are not organized in albums or folders.

Yes, this is very important and I am shocked that a company focused on privacy and transparency does not have this.

I want this, even if its an encrypted export