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Frequently Asked Questions

Bucket Explorer :: General Information about Bucket Explorer :: Bucket Explorer : How it works?

1. How can I update user metadata and after updating is that metadata information accessible by anyone or only by the owner of the object?
2. How to manage mime types?
3. How can I see the progress of operation performed on the objects of a folder?
4. How can I check the location of bucket with Bucket Explorer?
5. How can I set custom headers for objects when they are being uploaded?
6. How can I Quick Delete Bucket and File(S) on Amazon S3?
7. How can I set default permissions and custom headers for objects in specific bucket?
8. How can I take backup of one S3 bucket into another S3 bucket of my account?
9. How can I copy objects from one S3 account to another S3 account?
10. How to run multiple instances of Bucket Explorer?
11. How can I Move one S3 bucket into another S3 bucket of my account?
12. How can I set pagination of objects in my S3 Buckets?
13. How I can perform fast listing?
14. How to copy Amazon S3 bucket & object using Bucket Explorer?
15. How to move Amazon S3 objects to another Amazon S3 account?
16. Can I upload large files on S3 using Bucket Explorer?
17. How to upload files in HTML format?
18. How to access the file system?
19. How to compare the files & folders on local before uploading it?
20. How to upload files on Amazon S3 with custom headers?
21. How to uninstall Bucket Explorer?
22. How to use patch installation?
23. How can I Generate URL for Amazon S3 file?
24. How to use patch installation for windows?
25. How to use patch installation for Linux?
26. How to use patch installation for MAC OSX?
27. How to rename a selected file or folder in an Amazon S3 bucket?
28. How can I monitor my account on Amazon S3?
29. How can I unhide my hidden Amazon S3 bucket?
30. How to download files & folders from Amazon S3?
31. How can I see the status of my all listed running S3 processes?
32. How to see the list of all properties of S3 object?
33. How can I see the list of Amazon S3 Metadata attributes?
34. How to compare local file with S3?
35. How to update metadata of S3 folder?
36. How to update the Metadata of S3 file?
37. How to delete bucket from Amazon S3?
38. How can I delete Amazon S3 files from Amazon S3 bucket?
39. What is the use of quick connect & how it works?
40. How to enable Amazon S3 bucket logging?
41. How can I share an Amazon S3 file using web Url?
42. How can I upload files/folders on Amazon S3?
43. How to rename the existing files and folder on Amazon S3?
44. How quick delete works?
45. How to retrieve the deleted folders & files?
46. Is there any way to change the Storage Class for an object?
47. How can I set the Storage Class to REDUCED_REDUNDANCY for all the objects that will be uploaded in my bucket?
48. How can I view Storage Class of an S3 object/version?
49. How can I open logs folder in Bucket Explorer?
50. How to run Bucket Explorer on Linux?
51. How can I upload objects with reduce redundancy storage class on s3 ?
52. I have 64 bit machine. I do not have java installed. Can I use Bucket Explorer ?
53. How can I set the number and size for parallely running threads in queue?
54. How can I set the number of retry for failed objects?
55. How can I see the status of my all listed running S3 processes?
56. How to get object properties of Amazon S3 bucket?
57. How can I get normal listing when searching is being performed?
58. How can i download whole bucket ?
59. How to configure copy to temp folder before uploading files?
60. How can I set “Requester pays” for a particular bucket?
61. How can I make buckets in two different S3 accounts in sync? OR How can I compare content of buckets in two different S3 accounts?
62. How to update metadata for more than one objects?
63. How to update ACL for more than one object?
64. How can I hide a column in bucket & object table?
65. How to set default permissions in bucket?
66. How to update the ACL on version object?
67. How to create a new bucket in Bucket Explorer?
68. How can I be informed about latest version of Bucket Explorer?
69. How can I login using save credentials?
70. How can I upload using File open dialogue box?
71. How can I download using file save option?
72. How can I check object listing?
73. How can I upload file whose size is in GB?
74. How to copy with bucket explorer comparer from s3 to s3?
75. How to move with Bucket Explorer comparer from S3 to S3?
76. How to compare one bucket with another?
77. How to obtain version information about the product?
78. How to set bucket default?
79. What are the steps to use multipart upload in Bucket Explorer i order to upload a large file?
80. How can I host an entire website on Amazon S3 using Bucket Explorer ?
81. How can I view the size of my trashed data?
82. How to resume upload which was last time not completed ?
83. How to download big file in parts ?
84. How to set Content-Disposition meta data automatically for particular file types?
85. How to upload/download files through comparer?

How to compare the files & folders on local before uploading it?

There are two options Comparer and Compare To, provided in Bucket Explorer to compare the local file(s)/folder(s) with file(s)/folder(s) stored on Amazon S3.
You can use steps on this tutorial to compare files & folders on local before uploading it.
How to compare files & folders on local before uploading?