The first pass over a synced folder has no baseline to estimate from, so
its scan showed only "checking for changes…" in the app and "scanning…"
in `pdfs sync list`. For a large folder that scan reads every item on
Proton Drive before anything downloads, which takes many minutes and
looked stuck. Both now show how many items the scan has checked so far.
A mirror folder whose files were all gone from this computer stayed in
error for good. The wipe guard rightly refuses to trash the whole folder
on Drive, but nothing got the folder out of that state: a queued switch
to on-demand waits for a pass that ends idle, and its push pass hit the
same guard. Only removing the folder from sync cleared the baseline that
made the empty folder read as "delete everything".
- The push pass for a switch to on-demand forgets the baseline rows of a
local copy that is gone in full instead of trashing them, so the
switch goes ahead and the mount shows what Drive has.
- New Request::ResetSyncFolder, `pdfs sync reset ID` and "Sync From
Scratch…" in a synced folder's menu clear a mirror folder's baseline
(and a queued switch to on-demand, whose push pass would upload a
duplicate of every file). The next pass compares both sides as on the
first sync: one-sided files are copied across, files that differ keep
both versions, nothing is deleted.
- The wipe guards' messages name the reset; restore logs why it skipped
a folder.
Two simulations cover it. The on-demand one failed in exactly the
reported state (mirror, pending ondemand, error) before the fix.
All 8 catalogs translated.
close(2) returns before the kernel sends release, and release takes the
write handle out of the open writes a few milliseconds before the
revision is in the queue. A `pdfs copy` checked in that gap found the
edit nowhere and copied the version Drive had. A folder copy looked only
at the queue, so it also missed files below it still open with unsaved
writes.
release now keeps the inode in State::releasing until the revision is
queued. A copy refuses a file or folder with unsaved writes, or a
release still queueing, at it or below it, and a move checks the same
set.
A copy inside the mount went through the kernel's read/write loop, one
FUSE round trip per page, because copy_file_range answered ENOSYS. The
daemon now copies a range whose source bytes are local (an open write
handle, a queued write, the cache) into the destination's scratch file,
the same way write stages them. A range it would have to download gets
EOPNOTSUPP, which makes the kernel copy that one call itself and keeps
the operation enabled. The copy still uploads: Drive cannot copy into a
file cp has already created.
In the simulation, a warm cp of a 256 MiB file went from about
100 MiB/s to about 450 MiB/s (debug build).
The share dialog gets Link settings under an existing link: role, password
and expiry apply at once and keep the URL. The daemon fills in the options a
change keeps from the link as it stands, and refuses to keep a password it
cannot read rather than dropping it. pdfs public-link update does the same
from a terminal, and pdfs members shows the expiry.
Details shows a folder's size and item count as Proton Drive counts it,
trash included, and pdfs du prints it. Both are refused offline and for a
folder that is not on Drive yet.
Needs proton-drive-rs with update_public_link, get_folder_size and
PublicLink::custom_password.
The entry menu gains Make a Copy, which copies an item next to itself, and
Copy To…, which reuses the move folder picker limited to My files; Copy
To… is also in the selection menu. Both send Request::Copy, so the copy is
made on Proton Drive.
The move and copy reports share one request loop. Docs describe the new
actions, and the changelog notes that saved public links now show their
names once the SDK decrypts them.
`pdfs copy PATH... NEW_PARENT` sends a new control request, Copy, which
copies a file with its content or a folder with its subtree on Proton
Drive through proton-drive-rs's copy_node. Nothing is downloaded or
uploaded. A name already taken in the destination gets the next free
" (n)" suffix through get_available_name.
A copy cannot wait in the queue, because Drive copies what it holds.
So it is refused offline, and while the mount still owes Drive part of
the node: a local placeholder, a queued op, unsaved writes, or, for a
folder, any queued op at all. Local-first does not change this.
DriveApi gains copy_node and get_available_name, and the fake drive
copies subtrees, so a FUSE sim test covers the copy, the suffix, the
folder subtree and both refusals. The activity feed logs a new Copy
kind, translated in every catalog.
Needs the proton-drive-rs release that adds copy_node; until then, build
with a [patch.crates-io] pointing at proton-sdk-rs.
- scripts/publish-wiki.sh publishes every page listed in SECTIONS, copies
images, writes a sectioned sidebar and footer, and removes stale pages.
--check fails on links to missing files or headings and on docs pages
that are neither published nor excluded.
- New wiki.yml runs the check on pull requests and pushes to main, and
publishes when release.yml calls it or when started by hand.
- Split USER_GUIDE.md into topic pages (files, synced folders, photos,
sharing, computers, launcher and tray); add Getting started and FAQ.
- Make the COPR repository the main Fedora path, with update and
uninstall steps for every package type.
- Fix the stale CAPTCHA note in CLI.md, document pdfs unlock and lock,
and drop the broken AGENTS.md link from CONTRIBUTING.md.
When the session is stored and unlocked but the daemon does not answer,
pdfs diagnose asks Proton for a key report and prints a Keys section:
each account key, each address key and the account key its token is
for, and the address key the My Files share is encrypted to. It holds
key IDs only, so it can be posted in an issue.
Refs #40
Preferences gets a switch that asks GitHub once a day for the latest
release and shows a banner over the sidebar when it is newer. Off by
default. Packages whose package manager brings updates install the
marker share/proton-drive-linux/managed-updates, which hides the switch.
Refs #42
The spec builds from the tag archive and a vendored crates tarball when
git_dir is not defined, so COPR can build it without network access.
release.yml publishes the vendor tarball and submits the build to COPR
after the release is published.
Refs #42
A mirror upload that Drive did not list yet when it was read back left a
baseline row with no revision id. The next walk reused the recorded size
whenever the modification time matched, and a row without an id never
counts as moved. So a revision another computer saved in the same second
looked unchanged and never arrived (B254). The B250 simulation hit this
about one run in five on CI.
A row without an id now reuses its size only while Drive gives no id
either. Otherwise the walk reads the size, and an unchanged file gets
Drive's revision id written into its row, so each row costs one extra
read. Rows from before schema 44 are read once after upgrading.
Add the window size and the narrow layout to the 3.5.0 changelog with
B253, document the `window` config field, and explain in the
troubleshooting guide why a two-password account asks for its mailbox
password after every reboot, and how to keep it unlocked.
The app read the session with `auth::load().ok()`, so a locked keyring, a
Secret Service that was not up yet or any D-Bus error showed the sign-in
form as if nobody were signed in. The session was still saved (B253).
Keyring errors are now kept apart from "not signed in". The login page
shows a banner saying the saved sign-in could not be read, with a Retry
button. The app tries again after 2, 5, 10 and 30 seconds and opens on
Files once the keyring answers. The login page's header also loses the
back button the collapsed split gave it.
Translated into every shipped language.
While signed in, the sidebar never collapsed. The window could not get
narrower than the sidebar plus the widest page, about 950 pixels, so on a
small or scaled screen the minimize, maximize and close buttons ended up
off-screen.
- The page stack is no longer homogeneous, so only the page on screen sets
the minimum width.
- The selection bars of My files and Photos scroll sideways instead of
holding the window at their full width, even while hidden.
- Below 760sp the sidebar and the page take turns, with a back button,
and the My files search entry narrows. Picking a sidebar row opens the
page.
Every page, in English and in German, now fits in a window 480 pixels
wide with its window buttons visible.
The app always opened at 980x680. It now keeps the unmaximized size and
whether the window was maximized in config.json under `window`, written
when the window closes and when the app quits with it still open. A
missing field, or a saved size below 480x400, opens at the old default.
Add B248 to B252 to the bug ledger, the shared-device feature and schema 44
to the 3.5.0 changelog, and describe the join flow, per-machine profiles,
conflict copy names and the mirror's multi-writer rules in the user guide,
recovery guide, CLI and configuration references and the architecture notes.
Two or more computers can now sync the same folders through one device in
Proton Drive. `pdfs devices join UID` and "Sync With This Computer…" on
another computer's row adopt that device as this machine's and then offer its
folders for syncing here, like a restore. Unlike "Continue This Backup Here",
the other computer goes on syncing, and the confirmation says that changes
and deletions on one reach the other.
Translated into every shipped language.
Every computer that synced into one device wrote the same profile.json, so
each save replaced the other computers' folders with its own (B252). Each
machine now writes profile-<machine id>.json, where the id is random, made on
first use and kept in machine-id next to config.json. No host identifier goes
to Drive.
Restore reads every profile in .proton-drive-linux, including the shared one
older clients wrote. A folder's proposed path and mode come from this
computer's own profile, otherwise from the newest one that has the folder.
The legacy file is left as it is, so a client before 3.5.0 still finds it.
A mirrored folder assumed it was the only client writing to its folder on
Drive. With a second computer syncing the same folder, edits could be lost:
- The first sync took a same-size file at the same path for the same file.
It now records the baseline only if the local file's SHA-1 matches Drive's
digest, and otherwise keeps a conflict copy (B248).
- An upload replaced a revision another client had committed since the pass
looked. The upload now checks Drive's active revision first, and an edit
that read back with someone else's digest is left for the next pass to keep
as a conflict copy (B249).
- A download recorded a revision committed while it ran as synced, so that
edit never arrived. The baseline now records the revision the pass planned
to download (B250).
- Conflict copies now carry the computer's hostname, so two computers do not
make the same name on Drive (B251).
The baseline gains the revision id it was synced at (schema 44), and a new
revision counts as a remote change even at the same mtime and size.
A Takeout photo with no sidecar and no date in its name was filed under
the day of the import, and the app dated uploads by modification time.
A new `exiftime` module reads DateTimeOriginal (then DateTimeDigitized)
with its offset. Takeout uses it for undated photos it copies out for a
thumbnail, and the daemon uses it for app uploads before falling back to
the modification time (B244).
Opening a file or a location stat'ed the mount on the GTK main thread, so
a hung mount hung the app. The browser now uses the launcher's bounded
worker check (`present_within`, 2 s), and opening a location runs on a
thread. Every child the GUI starts is also waited for on a thread, so it
no longer stays a zombie (B243).
The viewer decoded each full-size photo, read its EXIF and stat'ed it on
the GTK main thread, freezing the app for a large photo. That now runs in
gio::spawn_blocking, and a result for a photo the user has left is
dropped (B242).
The viewer's handlers held strong references to the viewer and its
window, which own them, so every closed viewer stayed in memory with its
full-size photo. The share dialog's row handlers had the same cycle with
the dialog state. The handlers now hold weak references, and the viewer's
one strong handle is dropped on close with the photo (B241).
Only `pdfs daemon` marked itself non-dumpable, though `mount`, `login`,
`unlock` and `logout` hold the same passphrases or tokens. All five now
do. The file-manager script also passes each path after `--`, so a file
named like an option stays a path (B240).
`import-google-photos --wait` and `redate-photos --wait` exited 0 however
the run ended, and a run that failed as a whole left no summary, so the
CLI said no import had run and the app said it finished. Failed runs now
leave a summary with the reason, `--wait` exits 1 on failure, cancel or
failed photos, and the app shows the reason (B239).
The name checks the drain makes before each create, rename and trash,
and the wake of ops waiting for a name, read the whole queue, which made
a large offline batch quadratic to drain. Schema 43 adds an index on
pending_op(kind, name) (B238).
A reconnect made every failed op due at once, quota and access refusals
included, and ops that failed together retried in the same second. The
doubling also stopped at 128 s, short of the 300 s maximum. Reconnects
now move up only unrefused ops, and the backoff reaches its maximum with
a per-op spread of up to a fifth (B237).
Takeout imports, re-dates and the app's photo upload all sent an empty
thumbnail list, so the photos showed blank in Proton's apps. Re-dates and
app uploads now make thumbnails from their file. A Takeout photo that can
have one is copied out of the archive to the private staging folder,
thumbnailed and uploaded from the copy (B236).
Each photo was ranked against every sidecar in its folder, so a folder
of 10,000 photos took about 30 s to scan. The sidecars are now indexed
by stem and each photo is ranked only against the stems a few range
lookups return: 0.1 s for the same folder, with the same matches (B235).
Nothing stopped `/`, the home folder, the Proton Drive mount, the app's
own state or cache, or a folder nested in another root from becoming a
sync root, and a restore took a path from another machine's profile as
it was. One validator, `syncroot::problem`, now runs where roots are
added and restored, on paths resolved through symlinks with `..`
refused (B234).
Logout only deleted the keyring entry, so the session's tokens stayed
valid on Proton's side. It now ends the session first (DELETE auth/v4,
bounded to 10 s) and signs out locally either way. `pdfs logout` says
when Proton could not be reached (B233).
Rows, toasts and status page descriptions parse their text as markup by
default. Shared item names, inviter addresses, device names, link URLs,
paths, EXIF values and daemon errors went in unescaped, so a name with
`&` showed as an empty row and other names were drawn as markup. Those
rows and toasts now use plain text, and status page descriptions are
escaped (B232).
The upload deadline assumed at least 32 KiB/s. Under an upload cap shared
by every drain worker and sync task, a large file ran out of time on every
attempt, took the mount offline and restarted from byte 0. The deadline
now counts the upload's share of the cap as the slowest rate when that
share is lower (B231).
nvrl
Nils Pukropp