Proton Drive Reviews 8

Searching for a european alternative to Dropbox, Drive etc. and already having a proton email account I gave the Proton Drive a go. Important for me is the auto photo back up of my android phone. Well it [the app on my phone] works but unfortunately it has no selection for 'only new photos' which means that it uploads ALL the content of the selected directories which can take days [because of the encryption] after which one must delete all the excess once it's finished [5Gb free acount]. As I have multiple folders with photos taken and received from various sources this would mean a really time consuming process. I use dropbox, which does have this feature [OK I only needed it starting out, but still], as my safety upload 'on the road' so I can back up to my own system at home. I had hoped to switch to Proton for this but it's simply too involved, and means a great deal of wasted resources and energy.

I gave up after a whole day of trying to install it on various new laptops. The most unuser friendly program that I just paid for.

Proton is great but it needs a Linux desktop app. I will give it 5* when that happens.

The best one, but still needs improvement, waiting for the API to be finished and some media tools, other than that perfect

Promising but not at all good

I wanted to have an European alterative to onedrive, dropbox and more.

After researching my analysis came out with proton drive as the option. I copied from dropbox. It looked fantastic. During moving the files I was even offered by proton to get extra free storage, above the 5GB which are for free. Hallelulja. I did. I moved everything. I was very exited.

Some time after I realized the storage was back to 5GB and I could not sync with my phone ???? And it got much worse when I tried to get the files over on my new computer !!

I tried to write Protons help desk, without a result :/ I contacted proton and got a automated reply from “support+idEE0L19XG2V4(at)protondrive.zendesk.com” basically saying there was no time for replying as you where very busy.

I have now sadly removed my files back to dropbox. Hoping to find an alternative soon.

This for both private and the organisations and companies I am involved with.

Proton replies that 5GB is max, this is not the message I got when so uploaded. How else would I be able to upload more than 5GB?

My review stays the same.

Great for file storage. Terrible for documents.
You can not use word documents.

Their own document version is so irritating. By default when you click enter to go the the next line it leaves a big gap. You can hold shift and enter. But I write a lot of addresses. This is just a massive unnecessary inconvenience.

For a company that has pioneered so many areas, I can’t believe they have overlooked something so basic. Yet so irritating I’ve moved over to using standard notes solely for this reason.

And when it comes to Proton Pass. Don’t get me started on that. One of the worst features that actually caused me several days of problems to fix and recover lost data was not having an auto save feature when writing notes.

Yes, you can say it’s my responsibility to click save. But when you are busy it is too easy to accidentally click out when finished and forgotten to click save. Almost all apps I’ve used have auto save. It’s almost assumed.

Another really small thing that would likely be so easy to fix is enough to make me want to use Standard Notes to ensure this never happens.

It’s also slower that standard notes to sync across

But it’s a shame because Proton as a whole has so many good features. From VPN, email, file storage, and more. They could have the whole package. But due to a few really minor things make it too annoying to use. Although I do still use it for secure file storage.

But anything where I have to write out text or use documents then I won’t use Proton.

PLEASE PROTON… ADD AN AUTOSAVE FEATURE TO DOCUMENTS EDITING. AND STOP MAKING THAT STUPID BIG GAP BETWEEN LINES THE DEFAULT. OR MAKE IT EASIER TO CHOOSE WHICH FORMAT YOU WANT.

I was searching for European alternatives for OneDrive en Google Drive. I tried some, but Proton Drive is for me the best one. It is not perfect, sometimes a bit laggy but maybe it was my phone with a hickup.

Proton Drive lädt im Browser wirklich langsam, Docs ist kaum zu gebrauchen, es gibt keine vernünftige Lösung Drive unter Linux zu verwenden, aber immerhin klappt das mit den Freigaben sehr gut und es gab kürzlich für mein Abo 1TB Storage kostenlos dazu.