How to use quick connect menu in Bucket Explorer for Amazon S3?

Quick connect option is available in Bucket Explorer to help you quickly get login. When you login for the first time, your credentials get saved with password or without password to an xml file on your machine which can be used later to connect by single click only. Initially with providing Access and Secret key , you can also provide an identity name. Your credentials are saved to system with the identity name you provided. Now when you start your application later, rather than keying in that complex access and secret key, you can simply click on Quick connect button. Consequently it opens a list which contains the identity name you provided earlier. Merely by selecting the identity name, your corresponding credentials are filled in due space of Access key, Secret key and Name textbox and application starts establishing connection with S3 server. As an example, if you have two Amazon.com accounts, with two different sets of Access Key & Secret Key pair, you can choose to save both of them when you access those accounts for the first time. In the example, we can use two email addresses, say bob.smith@example.com and mary.smith@example.com to explain that - IT WILL BE EASY TO REMEMBER THE ACCOUNT BY EMAIL ADDRESS INSTEAD OF REMEMBERING IT BY THAT LONG AWS KEY.

So as title suggests, quick connect helps you to connect to the server quickly as you don’t have to remember those long keys.You have to just click on save credentials and provide password if you have saved credentials with password

1. Clear History :

   Clear History option is also available with Quick Connect. This option remove all the saved credentials from Quick connect and from xml.
   • Run Bucket Explorer as usual.
   • Open "Quick Connect" popup menu -> "Clear History" .
      

2. Edit Credential :

   With this option you can edit your saved credentials. You can add new credential, Edit existing credentials and remove credentials.
   
   To Edit Credential you should follow following steps:
   • Run Bucket Explorer as usual.
   • Open "Quick Connect" popup menu -> "Edit Credentials..." .
   • A window of "Edit Credential" will be opened having columns for Name , Access Key , and Secret Key values that are saved in xml file.
   • Three options can also be seen in this window:-

     1. Add :-

        1. Clicking on this will open one dialog box & ask for Name, access Key, Secret Key and password, which you want to store in xml file. Here password is optional field if you want to save your credentials with password then you can use it.
        2. You can only save the access key & Secret key with different name i.e. The name you provide shouldn’t be exist there in quick connect menu.
        3. Click on Save button.

     2. Edit :-

        1. Select the row that you want to edit from the Edit Credentials dialog box.
        2. Click on Edit button.
        3. If credentials are saved with password then it will ask for decryption key.
        4. Enter the password to decrypt your credentials. It must be the one that you have given at the time of encrypting your credentials.
        5. Click on OK .
        6. Click on Save button.

     3. Remove :-

        1. Select the row that you want to remove from Edit credentials window.
        2. Click on Remove button.
        3. Click on Save button.
        4. You can no longer see the removed account in quick popup list.
           

            

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