Why is Proton Drive using so much storage on Android?
I have photo backup turned on but as I believe it should just upload the picture to Proton Drive and that is that.
I see nothing on "offline files" (ie. tap it to make it available offline) so why would it be using 6+GB of storage? I assume it'd be fine to just clear storage and login again but it's odd that is using so much if it's not duplicating (I would hope not) my already taken pics from the DCIM directory.
I have 8GB in cache and 0.7GB in user data.
Im on android.
I will say the recent speed improvements to the app have finally made it usable. It was so painful before
Well, I went ahead and just wiped storage and logged back in. Now I'm at 70MB in user data and just 500kb in cache. Photo upload is on and worked so I guess will just see if it was some bug that kept going on even while it has been upgraded.
Go to Settings → Apps → Proton Drive → Storage.
Clear Cache
Inside the Proton app, remove any files set for offline access.
Had already done that. User data itself is 6 gigs, next to nothing in cache (though cleared it anyway the other day.)
And like said, nothing is under "available offline".
That's why it is so strange.