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Make Photos on Drive more like a Photo Viewer over File System

The photos viewer is nice but it would still be good to view the photos as normal files as part of the file system and makes them syncable to computers.

This would allow the user to manipulate the photos once they're in Proton Drive and limited to the UI. Once you upload them, it's almost like they're inaccessible to anything but viewing.

It would also allow the user to organise/rename/edit the photos on their local computer rather than them being "hidden" away and only accessible in the UI. Although there are albums for organisation, folder based organisation would also be possible which would not show in the Photos view.

The photos view would stay as-is, perhaps allowing a customisable selection of folders being available to select for the Photos view to search through for photos.

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  • Fred Nilsen commented  ·   ·  Report

    I second this. A specific use case for this: I have a bunch of duplicate photos in my Proton Drive. If I could just run a deduplication tool on my Windows machine on a folder with all my photos, that fix would be a no-brainer. Now, I need to manually review, select and delete using a web browser UI.

    There is also a case with using more complex CLI tools and AI agents to refine, deduplicate or enrich photo and EXIF data - which is not possible now that the photos are "locked down" and inaccessible as normal files.

  • Juhis commented  ·   ·  Report

    I agree. There should be a way to see photos as regular files. My mobile photos go automatically to my Proton drive, but then what? Nothing. I have two PC's and I have no way to download my Photos automatically. And I can't even see my photos from Proton Drive client.

    OneDrive has a way to sync everything, so photos are synced to PC. AND THAT WAY YOU CAN DO A BACKUP to a external hdd device, blue-ray, tape what ever. Proto Drive should have that capability too.

    Proton Drive is not a backup. If you upload photos from your mobile to our Proton Drive, it is not a backup.

    Also, being able to organise photos as files is a must.

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