Proton Drive is chosen by people who want their files unreadable to everyone but themselves, including the company storing them. That is a real constraint, not a marketing line, and it is the whole reason this connector is the most cautious one on the list: a service that cannot read your files cannot be asked to hand them over. The Proton Drive connector is part of askFinz Knowledge, which is still rolling out; here is what it will do, and what it will not.
Search privacy-first files without giving up the reason you chose them
The point of connecting is to make your own files findable to you — not to move them somewhere less protected, and not to widen who can open them.
Choose file by file, not folder by default
The default is that nothing is included. You add what you want searchable, and you can remove it again, which also removes its searchable copy.
Keep the rest of the drive untouched
Everything you do not explicitly add is never requested — there is no background scan of the account.
What is copied, and what is not
What crosses, and what stays in Proton Drive
Read
only the files you explicitly select and unlock at the moment you add them.
Written back
nonenothing. No files created, edited, moved or shared.
Stored
a searchable copy of the text from those files, visible only to you unless you share it.
Never read
everything you did not add, and your Proton account credentials.
What you will be granting
Access to the specific files you choose, at the moment you choose them, and nothing standing — you are handing over documents, not the keys to the drive.
Setting it up
Planned — not available yetWhat connecting it will look like once the connector arrives.
- 01
Connect Proton Drive from Knowledge.
- 02
Add the files or folders you want searchable. Nothing is included by default.
- 03
Remove any of them later; the searchable copy goes with it.
Limits, honestly
- This is the least automatic connector of the set, deliberately. End-to-end encryption means content cannot be read on a schedule the way an ordinary drive can.
- The exact set-up flow is not final. Treat the steps above as the intended shape, not a promise about the button layout.
- One-way and read-only in every version we would ship.
- Files removed from the selection stop being searchable; earlier answers keep only the link.