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Amazon S3 Object Properties

Object properties option displays the Meta information like object name, creation date, Last modified date, content type, content length, bucket name, request-id etc. about the selected object. You can add new metadata and can edit or remove existing metadata which were created by you previously

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Follow these steps to view properties of an object-
  1. Select any file/folder whose properties you want to see.
  2. There are 2 options for seeing the properties:
    • Right click on a selected file, choose Properties option.
    • Or click on Properties button from toolbar of object panel.
  3. The window for the properties of object gets displayed that shows properties & their values if properties are present.

If you select a file then the properties displayed are:

Sr. No. Properties Sr. No. Properties Sr. No. Properties Sr. No. Properties
1 Object key 2 Date 3 Size 4 Last Modified
5 Etag 6 Owner Name 7 Owner ID 8 Bucket
9 id-2 10 request-id 11 Version-ID [1] 12 bucketexplorer-md5
13 bucketexplorer-sha1 14 md5-hash 15 bucketexplorer-filelastmodifieddate [2] 16 Storage-class

At end of Object Properties window you can Update Metadata [3] also.

If you select a folder then properties get displayed are:

  • Bucket Name
  • Total Virtual Folders
  • Total Files
  • Size of $Folder Name$
  • Total Objects in $Folder Name$

Note : - Metadata of a folder can not be seen and updated.

  1. ˆ Version-ID : The combination of key and version id uniquely identify an Object in a Bucket.
  2. ˆ bucketexplorer-filelastmodifieddate : This shows the date on which the file was last modified at local system .
  3. ˆ Update Metadata-
    • List of Metadata attributes will also be seen below the properties. Metadata list which can be updated by clicking Update Metadata button located below the list.
    • By clicking on Update Metadata, opens a new window of update metadata from where metadata can be added, edited or removed.

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