Show HN: Proton Drive for Linux

Why let things like "this thing already exists" get in the way of reinventing the wheel with AI?

Thanks for this. Been with Proton a while and they're not great at letting their customers know of new products. Either that or they are too successful at filtering their own marketing email.

To the OP: Proton is privacy first. I use their tools for a reason, trusting file transfer to a third party would never happen even with an open code base.

It's fine if the tool is for yourself, great for your CV and well done for shipping something. HN can at times be a cruel place, think of this as a learning experience.

A command line access tool is very different from a mounting tool.

I wish it was possible to pipe into it tho.

e.g tar -cf - * | <some unwieldly proton drive cmd>

I guess this is not possible due to the way the encryption works?

Considering you ignore the other post on the subject, it's clear he came to terms with it. People's opinions evolve over time, and calling someone out for having an evolving viewpoint is anti-intellectual. I think it's perfectly fine to have an opinion one year and have something else the next year, and not feel the need to delete your old writings.

I don't know, I find growth and learning important.

Why are you opposed to changing your mind?

I work in this space with my oss work on Filestash, and its sync client https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/fdrive. A proper sync client is nowhere near a two week hackathon unless you vibe code it and don't have much care. I've been on it for 6 months and it's far from finished. Linux alone has a fragmentation problem. The sync engine can be shared, but the integration can't: tray, status, file manager overlays and notifications all work differently on GNOME, KDE, COSMIC, Omarchy, Sway. Electron looks out of place everywhere, so you end up maintaining one frontend per desktop, plus packaging for each distro. Then there's the sync itself, which is a long tail of edge cases, often platform specific. Last week I optimised the rm -rf case, FUSE hands you one unlink per file, so a folder with 10k files becomes 10k API calls unless you do clever things. Today, I've tried to optimise thumbnails, problem is the file manager opens every file in a folder just to render previews, so browsing a directory of videos can easily get uggly as well, let's not talk about the state of atomic save which if you are not clever here too will create multiple files on your server and waste bandwiths. There are many dozens of these edge cases just on linux and that's before you tackle window, mac, android, how do you handle delta sync ....

Wait, you can mount your Proton Drive with rclone? Hah, never knew. It's in Beta apparently though: https://rclone.org/protondrive/

Isn't rclone copying everything rsync style (at least for Proton) ?

> I'm not even super proud of it

well, scrap that

I’m not a customer and don’t know but IIRC they’ve been rewriting the storage API or whatever it is and it should resolve that exact problem.

Not sure, but that would explain how Google photos are always in sync and proton drive is always backing up my photos with 50-70 items to go (with no way to see which pictures/videos are backed up). Often their VPN will prevent even their own sevices from working and I have to reconnect manually to make it work. Never had these issues with mullvad.

I'm generally not very happy with proton's services or apps. When this year of my payment is over I'll be switching away.