I finally defeated the final boss of my backup migration to Proton Drive.

For months, I have been trying to sync my 500GB media library (around 80k files) to Proton Drive. Every single time, the sync crashed with the exact same error: "1 item failed to backup." The only clue I had was a blurry thumbnail named "Asset 1". No date, no metadata, no search tags.

I was so frustrated that I even asked Proton support to completely wipe my encrypted volume so I could start from scratch. The result was exactly the same.

Finding this file became a manual protocol. I spent months periodically scanning through thousands of files just looking for a visual match to that tiny thumbnail. I finally found it today. It was an old scan from 2017. It was completely frozen - uneditable, unindexed, and gave an error when I tried to export it from my phone.

I managed to track it down via macOS. When I forced an export there, the truth came out: it was not an image at all. It was a .pdf file somehow saved into the photo gallery, and it was silently breaking the entire upload queue.

Removing it fixed everything. The sync is finally 100% complete. The relief of finally closing this mental background process is unmatched.

#ProtonDrive #SelfHosted #DataHoarder #TechSupport #Backup #TechPhilosophy #DataMigration #Fediverse #Proton

Happy #DiDay liebes #fediverse 😊

✅️ #Tutamail 🚫 #googlemail
✅️ #Protondrive 🚫 #onedrive
✅️ #CoMaps 🚫 #googlemaps
✅️ #firefox 🚫 #chrome
✅️ #ecosia 🚫 #google
✅️ #weawow 🚫 #wetteronline
✅️ #fairphone 🚫 #samsung

Und anlässlich des heutigen #digitalindependenceday:
#whatsapp gelöscht 😊

Jeder kann einen kleinen Beitrag zur Unabhängikeit und digitalen Souveränität leisten. Make #democracy great again!

#unplugbigtech #android #apple #microsoft #meta

P.S.: bitte das Bild nicht allzu ernst nehmen 🤗

RE: https://framapiaf.org/@journalduhacker/116340739860205118

Perso, je suis degooglisé depuis 7 ans et m'en porte très bien. À grand coup de #duckduckgo, de #eOS, #linux, #protonmail et #protondrive, je me suis affranchi de mes comptes Google. Me reste juste Gmaps qui n'est égalé par aucun logiciel FOSS, et YouTube auquel j'accède par Newpipe pour suivre les créateurs que j'apprécie, sans tracking ni algorithme.
A part le passage à Linux qui demande quelques efforts, aucun de ces changements ne demande de sacrifices sur leur usabilité.

I just opened up a Proton Drive, but for some reason after doing the starting chores, I didn't get the bumped up storage that was advertised everywhere.

It's still 2GB instead of 5GB.

Anyone else had similar problems? I did send them a support ticket.

I did, however, get the upgrade from 500MB to 1GB in Proton Mail.

#Proton #ProtonDrive #ProtonMail

I just (finally!) cancelled my #dropbox subscription as part of my move away from propritary (esp. American) tech! 🎉

I've been a subscriber since I was a teenager and it has taken me a while to work out how to untangle myself from this one!

(I'm moving to #ProtonDrive and #BorgBackup instead)

#OpenSource #DeGoogling