How to Customize Bucket Explorer Configuration Properties?

It shows how many files can be displayed at the time of listing. By default we have set it to 1000.

You can change the Page Size setting by -

1. Go to Tools -> Preferences Menu option.
2. Change the value of Page Size as desired and click ‘Ok’
3. Now whenever you list object of any bucket then you will find list of objects according to page size which has beet set.
4. If there are more objects than page size then you will find Next button at top right corner of object table window.
5. By clicking on Next button you can see list of next objects.

It shows Access Control Permissions of Bucket and Objects at the time of listing. If you are not showing ACL by making it false in BucketExplorer.xml, then this will lead to fast listing of Buckets and objects . As it stops fetching of ACL's. This is useful for all those who have large amount of files in their Buckets and want to fast the listing process. By default we have set it to 'checked' or 'true'.
You can change the Show ACL setting by -

1. Go to Tools -> Preferences menu option.
2. Unchecked the value of Show ACL check box and click ‘Ok’
3. Now ACLs of bucket and objects will not show at the time of bucket/object listing.

Bucket Explorer provides facility to store and access all the reports regarding changes that have taken place in your Bucket(s) from Amazon SimpleDB. Bucket Explorer maintains the logs for all the operations in SimpleDB. We fetch these logs from SimpleDB and show them in Audit Report. If we are not showing Audit Report by making it false in BucketExplorer.xml, then this will not show Audit Report . By default we have set it to 'Unchecked' or 'false'.
You can change the Show Audit Report setting by -

1. Go to Tools -> Preferences menu at menu bar.
2. Check the value of Audit Report check box and click ‘Ok’
3. Now you can see Audit report by clicking on Tools-> Advance-> Audit Report .

Bucket Explorer automatically retries the failed processes in queue. By default Bucket Explorer retries 3 times and you can customize this retry limit using preferences panel option of Tools menu. This retry also works with Bucket Commander.
Bucket Explorer provides facility to change the number of automatic retries for queue by -

1. Go to Tools -> Preferences->Advance Button or Tools->Advance Preferences menu at menu bar.
2. Choose the value of Retry Queue from combo box between 0 to 9 and click ‘Ok’
3. Bucket Explorer automatically retries the failed processes in queue according to the value chosen by you.

It shows the dimension of Bucket Explorer main UI. You can alter this by dragging UI window with the help of mouse.
To change in Bucket Explorer Main UI configuration -

1. Run Bucket Explorer.
2. It will show Bucket Explorer main UI.
3. Now change the size of Bucket Explorer main UI with the help of mouse.
4. Close the Bucket Explorer and run again.
5. You will find the UI same as it was, when you closed the Bucket Explorer.

It shows the Tips and Tricks at the start up of Bucket Explorer.Bucket Explorer provides Tips and Tricks for both beginners and old users for getting information of Bucket Explorer's advanced features, which are not easy to understand. By default Tips and Tricks window will display at the startup.
If you don't want to show Tips and Tricks on startup then follow these steps -

1. Run Bucket Explorer and click Help -> Tips & Tricks
2. It will show Tips & Tricks window at start up.
3. There will be a check box (Show Tip on Start up) to show Tips and Tricks, unchecked this Check box and close the window.
4. Now next time whenever you run Bucket Explorer then Tips & Tricks window will not be displayed on start up.

Bucket Explorer copies the files into the Bucket Explorer's temp folder before uploading them to S3, but it slows down the uploading process when files are too big, because copying files from source to temp folder takes time, Bucket Explorer supports a feature to skip it for fast uploading. By default Bucket Explorer skip this process but if you want to save uploaded files to Bucket Explorer temp then you can change tag value of CopyToTempBeforeUpload as true in BuckteExplorer.xml file.

If a frequently changing file is being uploaded then you can avoid the failure in uploading process due to Etag mismatch, by copying that file in Bucket Explorer temp folder and then upload it to selected bucket. You can customize this limit by changing the tag value of CopyToTempBeforeUpload to true / false in BuckteExplorer.xml file (default tag value is false).

1. Run Bucket Explorer.
2. Go to Tools -> Preferences->Advance button or Tools->Advance Preferences .
3. Set Copy to Temp Before Upload combo box value to Yes Or No .
4. If you have chosen ‘Yes’ then it will set true for tag < CopyToTempBeforeUpload > in BucketExplorer.xml else it will set false to the tag value.

Bucket Explorer provides a new feature of 'Quick Comparer' . This feature compares only Name and Size of local file with existing S3 file instead of Name and Hash value of file. So it will take very less time for comparison during Upload , Download , Copy and other operations. This feature also facilitates you to choose Overwrite, Skip, Skip All and Overwrite All, for the existing objects/ files. You can customize the quick comparer option.
To alter the value of Quick Comparer option, you can follow these steps -

1. Run Bucket Explorer.
2. Go to Tools -> Preferences->Advance Button or Tools->Advance Preferences .
3. Change the value for Queue option action as compare with , and Set check box for “ Remember setting for each queue operation ” checked.
4. It will change the configuration properties for Quick Comparer option.

Bucket Explorer provides feature to keep the queue history for maximum 7 days(By Default). If the queue had processed 7 days before current date, it will be removed from BE queue folder.

1. Run Bucket Explorer.
2. Go to Tools -> Preferences->Advance Button or Tools->Advance Preferences .
3. Set value in "Number of days to keep queue history" combo box.

With this feature Bucket Explorer can control the no. of threads to perform operation in queue. With default setting, Bucket Explorer can run maximum 5 threads at a time. You can customize this limit by changing the tag value of in BuckteExplorer.xml file (default tag value is 5). Know More

If you want customize using User interface ,then follow these steps -

1. Run Bucket Explorer.
2. Click Tools -> Preferences ->Advance or Tool -> Advance Preferences .
3. Change the value of maximum threads to desired value.
4. Click on OK Button.

This feature controls the parallel upload in queue. Before starting next upload in queue, it checks if the sum of running uploads and next uploading file, exceeds from the configured size of Maximum Allowed Size , then BucketExplorer does not start next upload. If the size of files being uploaded is more than 100 MB then only one thread will run. Let's say we have three files to be run at queue respectively ‘a of size 35 MB’ , ‘b of size 70 MB’ and ‘c of size 65 MB’. In configuration xml it is set to 100 MB, so when we process these files in queue, then ‘a’ will process alone as sum of the sizes of ‘a’ and ‘b’ exceeds from 100 MB. Now file ‘b’ also process alone in queue since sum of the sizes of ‘b’ and ‘c’ exceeds from running 100 MB. Then ‘c will process. Default value of Maximum Allowed Size is 100 MB data. You can customize this limit by changing the tag value of <RunningQueueDataFactor > to desired value in BuckteExplorer.xml file (default tag value is 100 MB). Know More

Using User interface follow these steps -

1. Run Bucket Explorer and click Tool -> Preferences ->Advance or Tool -> Advance Preferences .
2. Change the value of Allowed Maximum Size to desired value.
3. Click on OK Button.

1. < QueueContainerSize > : With this feature you can queue a chunk of maximum 500 files. If the number of files/object is more than 500, then first it will queue 500 objects and process them and after that it will queue the remaining objects in chunk of 500 objects. You can customize this limit by changing the tag value of QueueContainerSize to desired value in BuckteExplorer.xml file (default tag value is 500).
2. < Multiple_Object_Per_Request_Count > : With this feature you can process multiple objects at one request. We can process maximum 5 objects at one request/thread.
   You can customize this limit by changing the tag value of Multiple_Object_Per_Request_Count to desired value in BuckteExplorer.xml file (default tag value is 5).
3. < SkipDiskSizeBeforeDownload > : With this feature Bucket Explorer will check the free space at local system before downloading a file. This file size is configurable by its user. The tag is used to configure the file size. 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.(default tag value is 10 MB)