Proton drive - mark it as unsupported?

ncw · October 3, 2025, 2:50pm

I would appreciated the community's feedback on this issue

Mark proton drive backend as unsupported

opened 02:47PM - 03 Oct 25 UTC

At the moment we don't have an active maintainer for the Proton Drive backend an…d @henrybear327 's hard work. As a result: - There's a backlog of Proton Drive issues and several related forum threads. - Integration tests for Proton Drive haven't completed successfully for over a month. Reluctantly, I'm considering marking the Proton Drive backend as **unsupported** until a new maintainer steps up. If you're interested in helping maintain it support would be very welcome. Thoughts from the team @rclone/rclone welcome. #### How to use GitHub * Please use the 👍 [reaction](https://blog.github.com/2016-03-10-add-reactions-to-pull-requests-issues-and-comments/) to show that you are affected by the same issue. * Please don't comment if you have no relevant information to add. It's just extra noise for everyone subscribed to this issue. * Subscribe to receive notifications on status change and new comments.

Thanks

Nick

kapitainsky · October 3, 2025, 3:26pm

In addition it looks like Proton guys are not interested really in supporting any third parties access:

There is plenty of Proton Drive related issues on this forum we can’t do anything about. @henrybear327 did fantastic job with reverse engineering their API but without anybody else able to carry on ongoing maintenance this remote experience apparent software rot. IMO it should be marked as unsupported at the moment. It will save a lot of frustrations and time wasted by users. Unfortunately its current designation as beta creates false impression that it is pretty much working - which is no longer the case.

asdffdsa · October 3, 2025, 3:43pm

i agree with that.

NoDarkLords · October 28, 2025, 8:50pm

Yes, please do. I made this very request just now in a “read the forums” lazy post. If this url: Proton Drive stated at the top that this is no longer operational, it would be very helpful. Thanks Nick.