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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.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

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 bullshit. I hope Proton support/devs would take this more seriously than that.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

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