I don't think I am adding anything new here, everything below has already been mentioned by multiple other users in this thread. I am merely trying to present a consolidated view on how I would imagine this to work.

This, IMHO, is

a) critical and, one could argue, a likely barrier for people who want to adopt Proton,
b) goes beyond photos but should cover standard file storage and
c) goes beyond google but should cover other cloud storage services (Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive/Photos, iCloud Drive/Photos, Mega, pCloud, whatever, etc).

At the moment, there are two ways to transfer files from from a different service (let's call it "Source" to Proton Drive:

* Download, then re-upload
* Use a third intermediary direct cloud transfer service. Mixed opinions on the web, but some claim to work.

The former is slow, impractical, scales poorly for large volumes of files/photos, requires a fair bit of manual intervention and, generally speaking, a pain.

The latter requires allowing a third service provider to access files/photos so they can execute the transfer from Source to Proton (assuming it works in the first place). Which implicitly means trusting this third service provider with your data. Which is something I don't want to have to worry about.

What we need IMHO is a way for Proton Drive to use the "Source" cloud provider's APIs to import files / photos directly, not dissimilar to how Easy Switch works for mail, contacts, calendar.

I think we are looking at the following features:

* Support for multiple cloud providers. WIth the more widely used ones to be supported first (Google, iCloud, Dropbox, OneDrive, Mega, maybe pCloud would be my shortlist)

* Selective import. Users would be presented with an interface that would allow them to choose what to transfer (Directory, Album, Month or Year, Individual files/photos. As opposed to a "transfer everything" only function.

* For photos in particular, it would be great if metadata (date, album, location) could be preserved if at all possible.

* I am imagining a "one-off" model where a user initiates the transfer on demand, as opposed to automatic synching.

I was unable to find this on the roadmap.

I'd be adding multiple +++ votes here if I could.

Thank you for the consideration.

I should like a one click button to import all my files and folders from Google Drive and to set the attributes like:
* Date/time
* Folder
* Persons on the share list

I should like a one click button to import all my photos and albums from Google and to set the attributes like:
* Date/time
* Album
* Location
* Persons

Proton should provide a One Button import function to import files and folders from Google Drive.

Proton should provide a One Button import function to import photos, albums, place, tags and timestamp from Google Photo.

The lack of this feature is what is preventing me from using Proton for my photos. I don't feel like re-creating the hundreds of albums I have in google Photos. Can't wait for an seamless album importer from Google Photos to Proton.

Please implement an equivalent of Easy Switch for Proton Drive. It would be of great benefit in the effort of migrating from OneDrive, Google Drive and Dropbox. It's honestly almost impossible to do manually as I - as of now - has to download everything to my local computer and then upload it to Proton Drive.

It would be nice to have the easy switch expanded to Google Photos, Apple Photos, as well as documents from Apple Drive & Google Drive. Making a transition from these companies even easier and more seamless. Being able to transition all photos and documents with the easy switch method would save many tedious manual hours.

In addition, it should be possible to choose the photos to be transferred. not all in one go

The Easy Swirch should include transfer of photos grouped as albuls in Google Photos

And if an "easy switch from Facebook photos" exists, I would close my Fb account definitively

If this existed, as long as it respected the updated date metadata from Google photos, it would make it possible for me to migrate. As it stands, even manually uploading photos, I can't figure out how to make the timeline view respect the Date Taken metadata and put them in the correct order, which makes migration a complete non-starter for me.

This request already exists and can be found here: https://protonmail.uservoice.com/forums/932839-proton-drive/suggestions/48121973-easy-switch-for-google-photos

An "easy import" workflow that respects folders (with the new Proton Drive Photo's "folders" feature just added) and all photo metadata (dates, locations, etc) is the single thing keeping me from switching to Proton and ditching Google for good. I've tried, and I've tried some third-party scripts to help migrate from Takeout -> Proton, but there's just too many issues and I want something official I can trust to import everything.

A tool just like Proton Switch, only for Google Photos, such as albums, favorites and so on. And migrate all this to Proton Drive

I had to do without. I used the google-photos-takeout-helper (https://dev.to/keeyan/how-to-migrate-google-photos-to-proton-drive-photos-6lf)
I had to fix the script, as it was broken.
For me as a developer not a problem, but this is a real hurdle. I love how easy it was to migrate mail. Please do the same for photos

I cannot second this enough. The direct backup is a little clunky when you have 7000+ photos/videos....

This is a must to reduce the friction of moving to Proton; It can take hours and hours of time to manually takeout of Google Photos, download the zip files, unzip, and then reupload to Proton Drive; This becomes exponentially more difficult, if you have many gigs of photos/videos/etc....

Even if we had to go get the Takeout ourselves and then manually point proton drive to the resulting folder, that would be good enough for me.

This will add a new important brick to make more easy moving out from Google to Proton!