Why Proton Drive Struggles With Lots of Small Files — And the Fix That Saved Me Weeks

Reading time: 3.5 min Summary: Proton Drive upload and download speeds struggle with many small files. Zip into 1 file before you upload/download to speed up. Consider Ente instead of Proton Drive if you want end-to-end encrypted photo backups. Proton Drive Struggles With Lots of Small Files I tried uploading a large collection of files to Proton Drive (over 100,000 files totaling less than 100…