You have to download everything in your Drive to your local system first, then unzip it all, but then you can upload the entire folder to CryptPad.
Google isn't going to make it easy for a competitor to transfer content, and I'd rather the CryptPad devs work on the product and not a feature users will each only use once at most.
The only annoyance I had was "converting" the uploaded files to the "native" CryptPad format. It doesn't actually have a different native type, it just seems to be a registering with the CryptPad internals which of its predefined types the file is (E.g. Document, Presentation, etc). And you don't have to do it for the file to open and edit just fine. But you have to open each file "as <Type>" from the right click menu, then save it back out and delete the "original" to convert it.
True.. Now for "first value" we have "create a pad in one click to work with your friends", also 1gb data for free.
There is Google Takout + Folder import to do mass imports.
There is work possible to improve but also through the browser it's tricky to make large volume imports reliable. Best path is an API which would also allow backup tools and down the line local syncing.
Google isn't going to make it easy for a competitor to transfer content, and I'd rather the CryptPad devs work on the product and not a feature users will each only use once at most.
The only annoyance I had was "converting" the uploaded files to the "native" CryptPad format. It doesn't actually have a different native type, it just seems to be a registering with the CryptPad internals which of its predefined types the file is (E.g. Document, Presentation, etc). And you don't have to do it for the file to open and edit just fine. But you have to open each file "as <Type>" from the right click menu, then save it back out and delete the "original" to convert it.