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nvrl d93982baa9 feat(gui,fuse,core): album covers as song thumbnails
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.
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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 diagnose and 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.