Proton Drive’s new photo backup feature for Android protects snapshots of your life | Proton
Automatically sync photos from your smartphone to the cloud using Proton Drive. Protect your memories with end-to-end encryption.
I've been thinking of a solution to this for a while now but the problem persists. I'd love to not have to indefinitely increase my Google drive storage, and in fact I have a home server with terabytes of free space on it where my and my wife's photos get automatically backed up. The problem though is that they're so much more usable and accessible in Google Photos. We have shared albums with our friends and family of our kid, of vacations and events. If I don't remember when that funny picture of a duck was taken I can search "duck" or see a heat map of my photo library.
The same problem is true with Proton Drive. I mean, I did just set up photo backup because why not, I have the space. But once they're there what good are they if I can't find them, organize them, share them?
Try ente.io out. It's much closer to the Google Photos experience.
Magic search released, face ML is coming soon, and shared collaborative albums are already a feature.
You can share them by right clicking and creating a link. And they are working on organization next.
I just use Syncthing to send my photos to my desktop at home. Automatically, instantly.
Specifically Syncthing-Fork, it moves all sync conditions into each sync job. https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android
There are clients for every OS. SyncTrayzor for Windows, Syncthing for Linux, Möbius for iOS.
This is truly great news! I recently migrated my email and calendar from Google to Proton but decided that Drive is useless for me without photo backup on mobile. Linux client with sync is also extremely important but AFAIK Proton Drive is supported by Celeste so this might be a viable workaround (though I didn't test it yet).
I also want to point out that during the short period of time when I'm using Proton Mail and Calendar, they already received a few new features. If they can keep up with this pace of development then I'm honestly fine with paying for incomplete services just to support them.
I really hope Proton will become a one stop shop for secure online services. Fingers crossed!
Finally! Drive might be useful!
Just tried it, it only backs up Camera photos. If one uses a third-party app to take pictures then Drive doesn't pick them up (on Android at least)
If you have the path set to DCIM/Camera then it works.
Can you elaborate on "third party?" To me, that means not the system app, but a user installed one. I've used my system camera (app.grapheneos.camera) and one not originally part of my OS (user app) that I've installed from the Play Store (com.google.android.GoogleCamera) and they both backed up automatically.
Hell yeah, it's been almost a week since my last full screen ad when I check my email. I'm looking forward to this one.
In the latest version you can select which folders to sync!
Very nice!
Any way to backup the photo without using the WiFi connection ?
Sadly I also didn't find a way.
How do I set my camera to always post pictures taken in "DCIM/Camera/" ? My built in camera app saves it to a different folder name 🙃 Edit : My camera app doesn't seem to let me choose the download path, what now...
