Changes in Bucket Explorer-2009.10

Bucket Explorer Version 2009.10 comes with a lot of enhancements. Here are some of the new features and improvements which will make the Amazon S3 experience much better for all of its users, click to download this new version of Bucket Explorer.

Advanced Comparer Panel:

With the need of fast and accurate document comparison becoming more and more vital, we have now enhanced this version of Bucket Explorer as a Simple and easy User Interface of comparer. You can do wide range of Comparison as follows-

1.Compare data (files/folder) of Local file system with the Bucket/Objects stored at Amazon S3.
2.Compare data of Local file system.
3.Compare data within same Amazon S3 account.
4.Compare data in one Amazon S3 account with data in another S3 account.

 

Run Multiple Instances of Bucket Commander :

With the help of Bucket Explorer you can create multiple Commander Configuration XML files using 'Edit Commander Config' option or manually. After this you can process the Commander Configuration files in different instances of command prompt by providing valid path of the configuration files while running Bucket Commander.

  

Commander Separate Licensing:

Bucket Explorer is providing separate license for running Bucket Explorer GUI and Bucket Commander. If you want to use features provided in Bucket Explorer GUI, then you can use license provided for Bucket Explorer or if you want to run Bucket Commander, then you can use license provided for Bucket Commander.

  

Set ACL to Default in Commander:

The new version of Bucket Commander now comes with the facility for its users to set the default ACL permission on all objects of specified bucket using 'setaclstodefault' action in Bucket Commander.

  

Advanced Search Option:

Bucket Explorer provides a new feature for searching objects of a bucket having long list of objects. This is an advance search option provided on object Table. With this feature by providing only few keywords (prefix or delimiter or both) you can search for specific object(s) in long object listing. These keywords make your search more specific and provide accurate resultant data.

  

New Transfer Panel:

The new Transfer Panel of Bucket Explorer comes with a modified copy/move feature which can be used to copy or move files from one S3 account to another S3 account. So now there is no need to open new instance of Bucket Explorer to copy/move files to different S3 account. User can perform all the operations such as upload/download/delete, setting ACL, bucket logging etc related to bucket and its object using this Transfer panel.

  

Export to CSV:

Bucket Explorer facilitates you to export whole bucket or selected object details from the bucket at your local system in CSV format. This feature includes object details as "Size of File, Last Modification date of file, ETAG of file and Name of file" to export. This feature also provides the facility to distinguish all exported fields by enclosing them with desired character or selecting the character for field termination.

  

Amazon CloudFront Distribution Logging:

Amazon Cloud Front is a web service for content delivery. It makes it easier to distribute content to end users quickly, with low latency and high data transfer speed. Now Bucket Explorer enhanced this feature by providing cloud front logging. This is the process in which the operations that are being performed on distributed content will be logged by Amazon, and logs will be saved in the distributed bucket on which you have set logging.

  

Grant ACL in Bucket Logging:

Bucket Logging is the process in which the operations that are performed on bucket will be logged by Amazon. You can choose your target bucket, where logs will be delivered. Now Bucket Explorer facilitates sharing log files of bucket operation with your friend through email address. You can share your logs with more than one authenticated users by adding their email addresses. Here we can give distinct permission like Read, Write, and Full Control on shared log files. "Set Grantee" option is used to share the bucket which is a target bucket for logging.

  

Amazon S3 Requester Pays Option:

The latest version of Bucket Explorer provides an option to the bucket owner to charge the person who is requesting operations on that bucket. All you have to do is to select the desired bucket and set "Requester pays" for this bucket. Now the person who performs operation on this bucket will be charged and not the owner of the bucket.

  

Checking Disk Size Before Downloading Big Files:

Now Bucket Explorer will check the free space at local system before downloading a file. This file size is configurable by its user. There is a tag in Bucket Explorer configuration XML named as "SkipDiskSizeBeforeDownload" .The default value for this tag is 10 MB it can be configured. Disk space would be checked for those files which are having more size than configured value. So Bucket Explorer will check the available space at the local system where you want to download the file. If there is not enough free space available at local system, then Bucket Explorer will not download that file.

  

Team Edition Installation Package:

Team Edition of Bucket Explorer has been provided with Generate Team Edition package feature. This allows an Admin to generate Team Edition packages. It creates package according to Operating System on which admin is running Bucket Explorer Team Edition. Now Admin can create a Team Edition package for his users at any desired location. Using this package user can run Bucket Explorer Team Edition.

  

Patch Release Changes :

Version 2009.10.04.01, Dec 15th 2009 :

• Support "Amazon CloudFront Streaming Distribution".

Version 2009.10.03.01, Dec 3rd 2009 :

• Support "US-West (Northern California)", Amazon's new region for buckets.
• Added an option to ignore root folder for upload/download operation in Bucket Commander.
• Provides "Advance Prefrences" to use all available bandwidth for Amazon S3 uploads.
• Fixed bug related to 'show error dialogue' for Bucket Explorer error log.
• Provides facility to create folder on local file system while performing download through Bucket Commander, if the folder is not already there.
• Fixed issue related to white space in Bucket Explorer configuration file.
• Provides easy navigation for log folder through improved UI.

Version 2009.10.02.01, Nov 11th 2009 :

• Supports "Manage Private Content" for Amazon CloudFront Distribution.
• Fixed the issue related to parsing the Xml Configuration on MAC due to crimson API.
• Fixed the issue related to deleting bucket, now any other bucket will not get remove from the bucket list while deleting the desired bucket.
• Bucket Explorer UI will not be opened when Bucket Commander is run without parameter.
• Created sample configuration tags in configuration file for authentication and email profile.
• Fixed the issue regarding reading HTTP response from server while refreshing Team Edtion.
• Fixed the issue related to refreshing Team Edition after 15 minutes ,now Team Edition UI will be refresh only if permissions are changed.
• Prompt the error message to user when she is not able to download the license.
• Send statistics report to our server whether client is able to the download the license or not.

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