Proton Drive "Photos" folder not visible

What is the problem you are having with rclone?

This is a duplicate of Proton "Photos" folder not visible which doesn't seem to have been resolved.

Proton Drive stores photos uploaded via the mobile app in a separate location to other files - /Photos instead of "/My files".
The top level remote folder in rclone seems to map to "/My files", which means it is impossible to see and sync photos stored in /Photos.
Expected behaviour: rclone would be able to go one level up to see and sync both /Photos and "/My files".

Run the command 'rclone version' and share the full output of the command.

rclone v1.68.2
- os/version: ubuntu 24.10 (64 bit)
- os/kernel: 6.11.0-13-generic (x86_64)
- os/type: linux
- os/arch: amd64
- go/version: go1.23.3
- go/linking: static
- go/tags: snap

Which cloud storage system are you using? (eg Google Drive)

Proton Drive

The command you were trying to run (eg rclone copy /tmp remote:tmp)

rclone lsd remote-pdrive:

Please run 'rclone config redacted' and share the full output. If you get command not found, please make sure to update rclone.

[remote-pdrive]
type = protondrive
username = jake.hoban
password = XXX
client_uid = XXX
client_access_token = XXX
client_refresh_token = XXX
client_salted_key_pass = XXX

A log from the command that you were trying to run with the -vv flag

jake@lotus:~/pdrive$ rclone lsd remote-pdrive: -vv
2025/01/06 12:47:43 DEBUG : rclone: Version "v1.68.2" starting with parameters ["/snap/rclone/522/bin/rclone" "lsd" "remote-pdrive:" "-vv"]
2025/01/06 12:47:43 DEBUG : Creating backend with remote "remote-pdrive:"
2025/01/06 12:47:43 DEBUG : Using config file from "/home/jake/snap/rclone/522/.config/rclone/rclone.conf"
2025/01/06 12:47:43 DEBUG : proton drive root link ID '': Has cached credentials
2025/01/06 12:47:45 DEBUG : proton drive root link ID '': Used cached credential to initialize the ProtonDrive API
          -1 2025-01-02 18:15:12        -1 Documents
          -1 2025-01-02 17:07:34        -1 Music
          -1 2025-01-02 22:18:58        -1 Pictures
2025/01/06 12:47:46 DEBUG : 5 go routines active

See:

Access "Photos" folder in Proton Drive · Issue #7832 · rclone/rclone

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Thanks! I did search the forum first but somehow I missed that.