r/ProtonDrive

I’ve been a bit worried about the lack of Linux support lately, so I decided to switch from Proton Drive to Filen since their Linux integration (WebDAV, etc.) is way better. But honestly, I’m shocked at how hard it is to actually leave. It’s almost impossible to get my photos and videos out. Rclone keeps hitting decryption errors with my keys, and trying to download everything via the browser is a lost cause.

We need a proper export tool right now.

Edit 01: Well looks like it worked...

To make the files accessible to the system, I mounted the drive. I highly recommend using the cache flag to avoid timeout errors:

mkdir -p ~/mnt/proton

rclone mount proton: ~/mnt/proton --vfs-cache-mode full

With Filen running natively (syncing a local folder), I started moving the data folder by folder. I used the standard cp command with the verbose flag to track progress, besides, this was very slow since everything has to be decrypted from Proton, downloaded to your temp cache, and then encrypted and uploaded by Filen, it takes a toll on the CPU and bandwidth. I encountered a few erros but a second pass on those specific folders/files usually fixed it.

cp -rv ~/mnt/proton/Documents ~/Filen/ (or just drag and drop folder by folder / Ctrl C + V)

For those who use Proton Docs when you mount Proton Drive via rclone, the Docs files appear in your file manager, but they are essentially just "pointers." You cannot migrate Proton Docs via rclone. You have to go to the Proton Drive web interface, open each document, and manually download them as .docx.

Just right now I'm trying to download my entire photos collection. Hoping everything works out.

Did I miss something? Today I wanted to save an attachment to my Drive. Normally I have to download the file and then reupload to Drive. But today It is possible to save the attachment from mail directly to Drive. Thanks team!

I would subscribe to Proton Drive if it were possible to download photo albums—that is, all the photos in an album, for example, into a ZIP file. Is such a feature planned?