I upgraded to Proton Unlimited today and I’ve set Proton Drive to back up my whole camera gallery, a few hundreds of GBs, so it will take a while. But I noticed that it skips large videos, e.g. it skipped a 9.8GB video file. Is this intended behavior? I can’t find documentation of it anywhere and it seems to happen silently. I easily could have missed it, assumed that it backed up everything down to a certain date, and deleted the only copy of the videos.

  • BearOfaTimeEnglish
    61·
    3 months ago

    And you know that how?

    Many moons ago, working with command-line compression tools, they definitely needed 2.5x+ working space to compress things.

    Android needs some free space to function. 99% full? Hahah, you’re kidding, right? Nothing will work right when storage is that full, with pretty much any OS.

    • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.deOPEnglish
      21·
      2 months ago

      99% full was when Proton Drive was using all the storage it could before it gave up. Half the reason I want to use Proton Drive is to free up storage space on my phone.

      Edit: and factually it works if I just tell it to retry (until the next time it runs out of space) so any excuse you make for it is nonsense. I hope Proton support/devs would take this more seriously than that.

      • alex_herrero@lemmy.worldMEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        Please be respectful of other user’s comments, even if they don’t share your perspective. We don’t allow that kind of vocabulary around here.

        Thanks!

        • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.deOPEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          Fair enough, I changed the offensive word. You should probably take a look at how BearOfaTime basically implied I’m an idiot.