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A song in a listing showed a generic icon, and the player a music note. Both now show the song's cover: the picture in its tags, read with lofty, or else a cover, folder, front or album image in its folder. Only the tags are downloaded. A song up to 4 MiB comes whole. A larger one brings the ID3v2 tag or the FLAC metadata blocks at its start, an M4A's moov box, the first 4 MiB of an Ogg file, and the last 4 MiB for formats that keep their tags at the end. The parts are laid out in a sparse staging file at their own offsets, as video samples are. A folder cover comes from that image's cached thumbnail, the thumbnail its uploader attached, or the image itself. It is stored under the song. Uploads of songs carry their embedded cover as the Drive thumbnail.
Proton Drive for Linux documentation
Proton Drive for Linux is an unofficial Proton Drive client for the Linux desktop. Your Drive appears as a folder that downloads files when you open them, local folders are backed up and kept in sync, and a GTK app with a tray icon and a search launcher covers Photos, sharing and more. A command-line client does all of it from a terminal.
These pages are also published as the
wiki, generated from the
docs/ folder of the repository.
Where to start
- New here? Getting started takes you from installing to your first synced folder.
- Installing or updating? Installation covers Fedora (COPR), Arch (AUR), Debian and Ubuntu, NixOS, and building from source.
- Something not working? Troubleshooting starts with
pdfs diagnoseand goes through common problems. - New computer, or the old one is gone? Recovering on a new computer gets your synced folders back.
- Quick question? Try the FAQ.
Using it
| Page | What it covers |
|---|---|
| User guide | How the pieces fit together, the words the app uses, preferences |
| Files and offline access | The ~/ProtonDrive folder, keeping files available offline, the Trash, earlier versions |
| Synced folders | Backing up local folders, excluding files, changes waiting to upload, conflicts, pausing |
| Photos | Timeline, albums, places, duplicates, importing from Google Photos |
| Sharing | Invitations, public links, items shared with you |
| Computers | Other computers in your account, syncing several computers |
| Search launcher and tray | Finding files from a keyboard shortcut, the tray icon |
Reference
| Page | What it covers |
|---|---|
| Command-line reference | Every pdfs command, grouped by task, and scripting with --json |
| Configuration | config.json, environment variables, file locations, the systemd service |
| Security model | What protects your files, what is kept on this computer, what the client connects to |
| Changelog | What changed in each release |
Contributing
| Page | What it covers |
|---|---|
| Development guide | Building, running and debugging from source; common changes; releasing |
| Architecture | Crates, the local tree, read and write paths, the queue, the sync engine, the control protocol, threads, threat model |
| Testing | Unit tests, simulation runs and the FUSE acceptance suite |
| Translating | Adding and updating translations |
| Roadmap | Planned work and verification still owed |
| Bug ledger | Every tracked defect with its analysis and status |
Also see CONTRIBUTING.md, and SECURITY.md to report a vulnerability privately.