Proton Drive copies slow on huge directory trees
Proton Drive copies crawl for minutes when rclone must list a huge directory tree to find a few new files.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
5 public reports · first reported 23 September 2026 · last reported 26 September 2026
What's going wrong
Users who back up large folders to Proton Drive with rclone see long runs even when only a few files are new.
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