I'm currently in the middle of moving all of my photos, but I have a couple of issues that have come up.

• The first one has to do with metadata.When I replaced my phone recently, all the photo files were marked as "created" on the same day. They still show in the correct order by datestamp in Google Photos, but everything older than last April is just an undifferentiated mess. Is there a way to get them back in the right order?

• I have thousands of photos. Is there a way to easily see the total number in both Google and Proton to compare that everything is indeed backed up?

• There does not seem to be a way to jump to a particular date in Proton, which makes it arduous to find any photos, even if they were in the right order. Is there something I am missing? Is this feature coming?

These issues prevent me from being able to complete the switch. Can anyone help?

Now that i upgraded to unlimited, I have access to all servers.

can I choose the city for my vpn connection?

protonvpn-cli c --cc US will connect to any US server

protonvpn-cli c US-CA#123 will connect to server #123

what if I want to connect to ANY CA server in US?

... with one picture:

Thank you!

I'm on proton unlimited and I turned on Dark Web Monitoring. I figure since i use bitwarden for my password manager, i need to manually sync my passwords so proton can monitor for them. what about more important stuff like adresses, DOB, SSN, etc? proton says here that they can monitor for all that stuff, but how, if they dont have it?

This is a feature that I miss, along with attachments on calendar events. I was thinking of building something myself using NLP and NER to read an email and extract calendar details from it, but I'd need access to an API to be able to do that and the API is no longer public. Is there any way to either get access to these APIs or some other workaround for this?

Is there a process for exporting everything that's saved in Proton Drive to something local, such as my laptop, or an external hard drive, so that I have that backup in-hand? (Windows 10, Android)

Thank you -

After using Protonmail free for a few years I upgraded to Mail Plus. No issues, works great. Last week I upgraded to Unlimited because it's only 50 cents more per month than paying for Plus and Simplelogin separately and I get much more out of it ... or so I thought.

I tried out Pass, Drive, and VPN and I just have to say how disappointed I am.

Pass - It has the option in the android app of adding custom fields but it doesn't work. The website has it but it's in black theme only which isn't something I can use without massive eye strain.

Drive - It has the option of uploading a folder but it doesn't work. Can't upload photos without installing an app. When photos are uploaded there isn't a search option. So now I have to delete all photos and re-upload them one folder at a time into a folder so they are organized.

VPN - The android app is in black theme only which will give me the aforementioned eye strain.

I just need to vent. Thanks.

Edit: Pass got an update and I've fully switched over from KeypassDX and I couldn't be happier.

I seem to be able to upload photos now without using the app. It's very strange. Couldn't do that before.

Overall I am happy I upgraded to Unlimited but I feel Proton needs a slow down and get more of their services further completed before introducing more services.

This might sound antithetical to the privacy-by-default standard, but my wife and I currently share our photo rolls with each other (using Google Photos)--everything we take is automatically shared with the other.

Is there anything in Proton Drive/Photos that would allow this? Even if it's only available within a family plan or something. I know that with Drive, we could share a directory and everything in that would be available to the other, but I don't see this as an option in the photos.

Alternatively, I suppose we could both sign in to Proton Drive using a third account just for that purpose, but that's less ideal.

On Android, I noticed two major features that are missing that make it extremely difficult to use the mobile version for me:

1. I can't add inline attachments. This makes communicating with clients and pointing at stuff impossible on mobile.
2. I can't browse existing attachments to view and remove them. This means I have to start my reply all over again and delete the draft if I uploaded the wrong thing, and I can't validate that I did upload the right thing.

Also, pasting into a message body is broken on the beta, but working on stable (the only option is "select all")

There's also no rich text, which is sometimes painful when writing long emails on the go, and it means I can't bold stuff to indicate importance.

I also had issues with sent emails from drafts where a draft was created on mobile, finished on the web and sent, the mobile client will show as if I had sent the unfinished mobile draft, which sent me into a panic last night haha.

I just had few basic question about the iOS automatic upload for photos

First will it upload all albums or can I choose which albums it will upload?

Second will deleting a picture from drive delete in photos or vise versa, I’m assuming they’re independent of each other apart from the automatic upload

3 password managers at same time 🧐 :

My older version of a Firefox browser remember most of my passwords (I am ok how it works), but some important passwords are also stored in KEEpass and not in Firefox. Then there is a ProtonPass which can import both Firefox CSV and KeePass XML.

Problem with import and synchronization of these managers is that the

1. Pass is not made to deduplicate the imported data (some imported logins may already be in vaults), which requires user to delete Pass logins prior importing a .csv file (importing because file contains more up to date logins).

2. import does not contain 2FA secrets nor aliases (aliases deleted in Pass can not be restored into Pass at the time of writing - June 2024).

Firefox and Proton Pass - PROS and CONS (as of June 2024):

Quality of suggested logins:

⛔️ Firefox (old ver.) suggests all passwords saved across whole website incl. its subdomains which is messy

✅ Pass: suggests only passwords for a present page (not subdomains) = good

⛔️ Pass: does not automaticaly complete/suggest login when typing into username field and the list of saved logins is not alphabetically sorted by the username.

Speed:

✅ Firefox: shows saved logins instantly

⛔️ Pass: 1 second delay of a Proton Pass drop down menu with login username suggestions comparing to Firefox which loads immediately and gives impression that it loads even before login page finished loading. Both password managers loads at same time on user mouse click into the login field. Delay of a ProtonPass happens only when the suggestion menu should appear automatically upon loading a login page.

Registration form suggestions:

✅ Firefox: suggests previously used usernames/emails when typing, which is fine

🆗 Pass: does suggest anything when i type, as already mentioned. When I click, it suggests main ProtonMail address and allows generating unique alias which is very important key feature

🆗 Pass: password generating box shows non-important confirmation of a successfully copied password, which hides after like 2 seconds, making impossible to read the next form field during that time, which is annoying.

Login form suggestions:

⛔️ Pass: does not offer any login suggestion on a Basic HTTP Auth (.htaccess password protection of a directory) forms (popup) of mine (site: ILF admin, C*A/my)

Other:

⛔️ Pass: in Firefox i think it sometimes gets logged out requring to spend time re-login which may require 2FA auth from other device or other password manager.

✅ Pass: editing, grouping of passwords seems a bit better than Firefox

✅ Pass: Integrated 2FA

✅ Pass: Pass monitor in paid plan, password strength/leak indication

PROS vs CONS. What to do?

ProtonPass is a bit slower than Firefox, yet it has its advantages - email alias generating, 2FA....

SimpleLogin browser extension can be used for Proton aliases and if you do not need 2FA, it may be easier to stay with just Firefox, which is enough safe manager since I am already making backups of a Firefox (incl. passwords - which are also synced E2EE to the Mozilla cloud https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/sync#w_is-it-secure).

Other option is to use Pass only for aliases and 2FA and inside its General settings, disable passwords saving and filling, letting Firefox do this job.

Third manager (for example KeePassXC) can serve as a backup, it can also import exports of Pass and Firefox. I guess it would be good to backup any password manager (incl. Pass) data regularly on schedule.

What are your suggestions/feedback regarding this?

Firefox 115.12.0esr with Pass 1.17.4

On various pages including https://lemmy.ml/signup when I click 1st time into a email or password field, Pass shows a "suggestion" box, when I click one more time into that form field, the box now fails to hide even i click outside of it. Workaround is to click into different form field.

Anyone is experiencing the same? On which platform/pass version?

Hi everyone,

We’re very grateful for your feedback during the beta testing and are happy to announce that automatic photo backup on iOS is rolling out now and will be available for everyone over the next few days.

Features

• Automatic backup that can be enabled to sync to the secure cloud at regular intervals
• End-to-end encryption of biometric data, geographic information, and other important metadata
• Save images in their original resolution
• Select any file, video, or photo to easily view them offline 
• Generate an encrypted file-sharing link with or without password protection for any photo or video, to share with anyone

Let us know what you think! You can also share, vote, and discuss feature requests on User Voice. Thank you, as always, for your feedback and support.

Proton Team

Honestly... this isnt the first time this has happened either. Been a paying customer for a long time now, and occasionally I get these upgrade buttons, which I am hoping are just bugs, as otherwise it would be very weird as I cannot upgrade to anything higher than Unlimited.

When SimpleLogin merged with Proton, proton unlimited members are able to use SimpleLogin premium for free. Is that the case for Standard Notes? I haven't figured out a way to do this.

This week, Apple released in the latest update of iOS and MacOS an application that is simply called "Passwords".

In my opinion, Apple could be a serious competitor to Pass: both provide temporary emails, both manage Passkeys, but what I think sets Apple apart from Proton is the "Connect with Apple" feature. Passwords are also encrypted (for Apple via the default iCloud Keychain).

Of course, Proton does not have the same financial income as Apple, which pushes them, for example, to ask to pay for two-factor authentication. But I stay with Proton because I simply love the values of the company but also because I have my emails, my calendar, my drive that are on Proton.

Now I think it would be interesting for Proton to work on an alternative to "Connect with Google" or "Connect with Apple". What do you think?