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I haven't encountered a troll yet and the encountered bots so far are useful repost bots. Reddit is just filled with obnoxious people that I couldn't stand, moderators with small dick energy that moderate to whatever rules they prefer (like permanent bans for using very common non-targeted slurs) and just annoying trolls on subs like WorldNews and Canada that get away with racist shit all the time.

I was worried at first that Lemmy would be basically dead compared to Reddit. But holy hell, its active enough and its qualitatively better than Reddit could ever be. I never realized how shit it was until I actually decided to leave permanently.

Based on your post I tried with 3 different browsers, on a wired and wireless connection (I have great internet speeds). But it’s all the same result. I assume it’s a Proton limitation.

Yeah! I’m very happy. I had a double or triple backup of everything, besides the month November. It was my nieces birthday and I traveled through Asia, so those were important media to me. I’m very happy after 20 painful hours that I got them back. As a precaution I ordered another SSD to clone the first one.

Exactly! The support team did acknowledge that there are known issues if you download 500 items at once. I had these issues even at 300 files. Only with batches of 100 it worked well. They really need to figure this out. Proton Drive is their worst product.

I think I kind of located the problem. The reason it kept failing on Safari was probably an Apple thing (I am even so more done with Apple than anything else). I assume Safari kept sleeping the tabs because it assumed no activity. It didn't keep them open in memory. Therefore all downloads failed. I am now doing the last part, which is 60GB of photo's of my Asia travel. I forgot to look at my Mac, it locked itself and after 30GB the download failed again (in Firefox). I assume Firefox doesn't reload tabs automatically so the larger files keep going.

However, I still think Proton should make it easier for us to export media. This seems no different than the walled Apple garden. Once you go in, you can get out very difficult.

I disagree. It's not like they are safekeeping it for free. I am paying them and I expect basic features like uploading, downloading and managing. Of course their servers can be compromised by whatever reason, but that's not the case here. It's only 100Gb worth of data. In the grand scheme of data that people store online, it's a tiny grain of sand in the big data desert. It should not be this difficult (by design) to extract 100GB worth of media from a professional company. Especially, if other providers are able to do it.

I have never been so disappointed in a company. I’m going to close this account after I’m done downloading and I’ll transfer my email to Tuta.

I’m currently using Firefox to download them, and am at 100 items per time. It seems to be working better than Safari.

Yeah it is my only copy. Anything from 2025 is also on my phone, so I can just neglect those. But the 2024 media isn’t. And this really isn’t a “backup problem” it’s a restoring/export problem which is just a service or feature problem.

My photos are there, they are safe. But Proton is restricting me into downloading them, by not providing the correct tools.

I now realize how most people would be Nazi’s or side with them with their silence during the holocaust. Anyone who is silent today can never convince me that they wouldn’t be nazi’s in WW2

I wouldn’t be surprised. European leaders are pretty spineless and fully dependent on that orange clown in the White Circus in Washington.

Yes, I actively decided to get rid of all my Apple products. I'm currently on Android and I want to get into Linux with a second-hand laptop. I'm so done with Apple, the biggest hypocrites. I'm sure they'll now remove their Pride and Union washed wallpapers..