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Rclone with Proton Drive (Error Fix)

When trying to use Proton Drive with Rclone, errors such as "Invalid access token (Code=401, Status=401)" and "We are detecting potentially abusive traffic coming from your network" may occur. This article introduces methods that can currently address these errors.

Shou Arisaka
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Oct 18, 2025

When trying to use Proton Drive with Rclone, errors such as “Invalid access token (Code=401, Status=401)” and “We are detecting potentially abusive traffic coming from your network” may occur.

It seems these didn’t happen before, but have started occurring recently.

In addition to errors like this:

> ./rclone lsd --progress proton_main:someFolderName
WARN RESTY 401 GET https://mail.proton.me/api/core/v4/users: Invalid access token (Code=401, Status=401), Attempt 1
ERROR RESTY 401 GET https://mail.proton.me/api/core/v4/users: Invalid access token (Code=401, Status=401)

Errors like this may also occur:

We are detecting potentially abusive traffic coming from your network and have temporarily blocked logins. If you believe this is in error, please contact us here: https://proton.me/support/appeal-abuse (Code=2028, Status=422)

This article introduces methods that can currently address these errors.

By using this method, you can avoid errors and operate normally as shown below. Below is an example of listing folders with the lsd command.

> [Shown with subscription]
> [Shown with subscription]
> ./rclone lsd [Shown with subscription]
-1 2022-10-17 18:02:33        -1 file3
-1 2023-09-04 19:34:57        -1 _googleFiles
-1 2022-10-14 23:43:31        -1 tmp
Transferred:              0 B / 0 B, -, 0 B/s, ETA -
Elapsed time:         6.1s
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Shou Arisaka Oct 18, 2025

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