Re: rclone on F41: mounting proton drive

[Ranjan Maitra]

On Sun Jan12'25 08:25:18PM, Mike Wright wrote:
> From: Mike Wright 
> Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2025 20:25:18 -0800
> To: Community support for Fedora users 
> Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users 
> Subject: Re: rclone on F41: mounting proton drive
>
> On 1/12/25 19:55, Ranjan Maitra via users wrote:
> > Thanks, I found a project called Celeste:
> >
> > https://github.com/hwittenborn/celeste
> >
> > Though I would prefer a commandline setup for greater control, I can try this. However, I have never installed either from flatpak or snap: which one is preferred? I have to rather embarrassingly say I do not quite know the difference.
>
> Snap is an Ubuntu thing and I had to go to *great* lengths to get rid of it.
> Even if you figure out how to rid yourself of it, it is a dependency of
> everything so the next time you install anything it will reinfect your
> system.  flatpak seems to be *much* less intrusive.
>
> IMO,
> :m

So, I installed using flatpak, but it did "not really work." However, I noticed that I can

$ curl https://rclone.org/install.sh | sudo bash

to directly install the CLI-based rclone from rclone.org so that is what I intended doing.

However, sadly, ProtonDrive does not allow photographs to be transferred from the drive. However, I found that on the web interface, if you have more than a single month of photographs, then you can check on the month and download the whole month of photographs so that is an option.

As an aside, I do not quite understand what value there is in not allowing transfers of photographs from a backup drive. Perhaps Proton has some reasons.

Hope all this information helps someone.

Thanks to all for your help!

Best wishes,
Ranjan