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Copy Files/Folders to Another Amazon S3 Account

This document explains the steps of copying S3 files and folders to another Amazon S3 account, applicable for an older version of Bucket Explorer. If you are using Bucket Explorer version 2009.10 or above, this process is not valid anymore. Please click here to see " how to copy Amazon S3 objects and bucket? "

 		 

Copy Amazon S3 files from source bucket and paste it to target bucket in same account or in different account. If S3 files which are to be copied already exist then it will either be overwritten with new S3 files or be skipped depends on the command given by you. If you choose to overwrite then the older version of S3 files will be copied to version folder of System Bucket having S3 file name appended with current date and time.

If you want to copy file(s)/ folder(s) of a Bucket into another account's bucket, follow the steps below:

copy file(s) of one amazon s3 account into another account

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  1. Start the Bucket Explorer and connect with your Amazon S3 Account .
  2. Select Bucket whose files, you want to copy.
  3. Right click on selected file(s) and Click Copy option.
  4. Now open new Bucket Explorer Instance using File->New Window and login with another account’s keys.
  5. Now select bucket or folder where you want to paste copied file(s).
  6. Right click on file panel and click Paste option.
  7. This will ask for queue option, select desired queue option.

    To know more about queue option refer the page-

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  8. Copy operation will be started in Bucket Explorer queue window.
  9. Click on Statistics tab of queue window to see Total copied, failed and pending files.
  10. See the list of successfully copied/ moved/ failed and skipped files in appropriate tab of queue window.
  11. If any operation failed then it retries automatically by default 3 times.
  12. After automatic retrying if any failed operation is still there then Retry button will be visible on Statistics panel , click on retry button to recopy the failed files.
  13. After successful completion of copying process close the queue window.
  14. You've done.

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