2y ago

Proton Drive’s new photo backup feature for Android protects snapshots of your life | Proton

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2y ago

È arrivato il caricamento automatico di foto su Proton Drive

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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.
  
  Synology Photos (what I use) does all of that. The problem is for search and face match it's nowhere near as good as Google and for sharing, I'd have to ask people to install a new app and set up an account, but they all already have Google accounts
- Immich is basically a g photos clone I've been meaning to try out
  
  I just set up Immich on my home server this morning, it's awesome! And then Proton announces photos this afternoon. 😅
- 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 not a solution to my problem. Read what I wrote.
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!
- You need to add the beta from playstore
Finally! Drive might be useful!
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.
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.
- What if you move the photos into the DCIM/Camera folder?
  
  Then it works. They just don't let you manually select the folder. Has to be DCIM/Camera
- 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.
- Its default only on WiFi. You cant even make it sync over Mobile Data. What do you mean.
  
  This is good if true. I had it going and it kept the background notification while on mobile data.
  Edit- yesterday, without any Wifi connected, it showed as still backing up. Today while I was out it showed "paused til connected to Wi-Fi" so...I guess it should be only over wifi? Going to keep monitoring it as it is taking a while.
I wonder if it works with FolderSync. Be neat if it did ❤️
- I use FolderSync to move from /Pictures/Screenshots and other to /DCIM/Camera so they autoupload. Just works so far, apparently.
  
  Hmm, that's clever 😎. I dig it.
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...

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