As it currently works, it’s of no use to me whatsoever.
Proton Mail, Pass and VPN are pretty great offerings. Calendar not so much, and Drive not at all.
I would love it to function like Google drive with document editing, spreadsheet, etc…
Linux client of course. That would help a lot.
And I truly don’t understand why the photos function was released. It’s only useful as a backup. No sorting, no albums, no searching, nothing. And it seems completely separated from the rest of the drive which is inconvenient. On top of that it is very slow, maybe because you’re forced to view in thumbnail mode.
Because of this I am tempted to upload all my photos in the ‘normal’ drive instead but that would really be a hassle.
It’s not really a full product. Nobody uses a web only app for cloud storage, so I’m currently waiting for a Linux sync client before I can really have an opinion on it.
It’s great for my use cases. I mostly just store documents, disk images, and random things like Minecraft server backups.
I see a lot of people asking for a Linux client and I’m not sure why, I don’t even use the Windows client, just the web apps. Maybe for automatic backups? That might be nice.
The biggest feature I’d like is iOS photo backups so I can cancel that stupid $0.99 50GB iCloud thing. Might still need it for iMessage backup/restore, but we’ll cross that bridge later.
Another feature I’d like that will probably never happen is API support so I can use Drive as the storage backing in random automations. If there’s some sort of API built into the desktop client as some point that’s locally usable, that would be pretty sweet.
Would like to be able to copy / move files between the folders backup section and the directory section.
I am a paying customer but haven’t used it yet. My endgoal is to move away from Microsoft as they are more and more unashamed of gathering all kinds of data - but the truth is, at this point, I cannot move away from OneDrive according to all the comments I have seen about Proton Drive
For what I use it for, it’s fine. If someone is a power user or this is their primary online storage, I can the frustration as it’s sorta Beta with tons of room to improve.
Big fan of Proton mail, with that being said the drive feature should have never been released to the public in its current form. Unforgivable to have a software program that doesn’t function on a basic level of being able to sync properly as a cloud drive on the MacOS platform. Due to a known bug they are “working on” with MacOS deleting cloud files I have had my data held hostage, absolutely shameful for me to spend my time running around trying to fix such a simple Alpha MVP issue that should have been shaken out in QA long ago. So yeah sour taste in my mouth after this. Not a fan of Proton Drive, keeping my files out of it.
It does what I need. Once they offered the Windows client, it’s been my replacement for OneDrive and GoogleDrive and never going back to either of those two.
I use it regularly… wouldn’t consider myself a power user, but I like its much or better than Dropbox and I like its security. Some say it is crushingly slow…I have not found that. I use it on Win, Mac, and Linux (via web) and have had no issues.
So far so good, not doing anything fancy rn
Missing the connection to upload files from GDrive and others to Proton, this is a big big missing point as it’s limiting the real benefit for standard users not expert developers like I read above.
Good for loose documents. Generates a lot of errors for anything larger. Takes forever to upload and consumes WAY too many network resources for the rate it uploads
Like: 500GB for the price
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I can’t really use in my workflow without a Linux client. It’s dead weight on my subscription currently.
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Messaging on how Proton expects us to use it. They market it like a Google Drive/OneDrive replacement, but when people comment on how slow it is, and how transferring a number of files takes absolutely forever, we then get the response of “well it’s not OneDrive/Google Drive”, and make it sound more like it’s for warm/cold backup storage vs something that is meant to be used in an everyday workflow.
It won’t sync on MacOS for me.
You can’t watch videos in landscape. Which is annoying. Offline files is terrible and nearly useless.
Is okay for personal use. Totally useless for collaboration (and expansion of Proton user base). Too bad their PMs are not seeing potential in collaboration features.
Without the ability to edit document like Google Drive, I currently don’t use it, even if I have a paid plan. I use only the Mails, VPN & SimpleLogin.
i like it but the search menu is too poor , and the functionality to modify a .doc or a simple .txt is a pain on android