Mattyj2001 ← The Voice of the Proton Community My feedback 1 result found Sync existing macOS folders 365 votes Vote Vote Vote We're glad you're herePlease sign in to leave feedback Signed in as (Sign out) Close Close Vote We’ll send you updates on this idea Planned · 35 comments · Proton Drive » New feature · Delete… · Admin → How important is this to you? Not at all You must login first! Important You must login first! Critical You must login first! We're glad you're herePlease sign in to leave feedback Signed in as (Sign out) Close Close Submit Rating An error occurred while saving the comment Mattyj2001 commented · Feb 12, 2026 · Edit… · Delete… You can do this the dumb/hacky way by setting up a crontab to rsync the folders. Proton Drive is mounted under /Users/[your user name]/Library/CloudStorage/ You just need to give terminal and /usr/sbin/cron 'full disk access' in System Settings -> Privacy and Security. * * * * * rsync -arW --del /Users/[your user name]/Desktop/ /Users/[your user name]/Library/CloudStorage/ProtonDrive-[your proton user name]@proton.me-folder/Desktop/ 2>&1 > /dev/null Save Submitting...
You can do this the dumb/hacky way by setting up a crontab to rsync the folders.
Proton Drive is mounted under /Users/[your user name]/Library/CloudStorage/
You just need to give terminal and /usr/sbin/cron 'full disk access' in System Settings -> Privacy and Security.
* * * * * rsync -arW --del /Users/[your user name]/Desktop/ /Users/[your user name]/Library/CloudStorage/ProtonDrive-[your proton user name]@proton.me-folder/Desktop/ 2>&1 > /dev/null