Proton Services

Jimbeam3678 · 2026-03-22T12:27:28+0000

Phil2008 said:
Been using it for a few yrs now and would be quite lost without it as it automatically updates/add doc,pics and files to both my laptop and pc, and got the shortcut folders in explorer, I have even got the desktop synced too.. Im paying £1.99 a month for 100gb...

And Ive got my iphone synced up to my pc and laptop so any photos I take are sent to these devices aswel

I’m happy it’s working for you. I’m lost as to how my experience can differ so much to yours.

A few and I mean only few issues I’ve had over the 3 times I’ve tried to get on with it.

Not liking certain files names and trying to be clever and rename them. Resulting loads of syncing conflicts

Hanging for hours and days on updating syncing

Constantly crashing on load resulting in having to uninstall, delete cache and then let it resync 1tb of data!

I could go on but you get the general idea.

Phil2008 · 2026-03-22T13:11:38+0000

Jimbeam3678 said:
I’m happy it’s working for you. I’m lost as to how my experience can differ so much to yours.

A few and I mean only few issues I’ve had over the 3 times I’ve tried to get on with it.

Not liking certain files names and trying to be clever and rename them. Resulting loads of syncing conflicts

Hanging for hours and days on updating syncing

Constantly crashing on load resulting in having to uninstall, delete cache and then let it resync 1tb of data!

I could go on but you get the general idea.

It take some faffing around in explorer to get them showing up like that,, but OneDrive for me anyway, doesnt crash etc and syncs all files to both devices straight away.

Jimbeam3678 · 2026-03-22T13:13:21+0000

@mid_gen proton still doing the job for you?

Phil2008 · 2026-03-22T13:21:18+0000

Same goes for firefox, I have that synced up to both devices too.

mid_gen · 2026-03-22T14:16:18+0000

Jimbeam3678 said:
@mid_gen proton still doing the job for you?

Yes, no complaints, especially Proton Mail which is excellent, really nice to manage different addresses in one place.

Proton Pass is really good.

I’m not really heavily using Proton Drive, it’s just for documents, the odd image or video asset to get stuff between systems.

For photos I use a self hosted Immich server, which is excellent….so I avoid having that 300Gb+ on Proton Drive, which just has 5-10gb of stuff on it.