S3Browse - How to...
How to upload directly from the browser?
- Clicking on a bucket link will open an explorer page for that bucket. The explorer lets you browse through the content of a bucket. At the top of the table is a Web Upload link. This link will take you to entry form page. Select one or more files to upload.
- Optionally you can specify a prefix/path if you want to organize your file using a directory like structure.
- If you want to store the uploads using the same file names and you don?t need to specify extra meta-data then you can select the processing option ?Send the files directly to the Amazon S3?. Otherwise select the other option, this will allow you to change the file names and meta-data.
- Once you press the submit button the upload to the S3Browse server will start. Depending on your bandwidth and the file sizes this may take a while. A progress bar at the bottom shows how much time is to remain. At the end of this step, your files reside in a temporary folder on the S3Browse server.
- If you selected to send the files directly you will now see the Upload Progress view. Your files are uploaded from the S3Browse server to Amazon S3 in a background process. This view show the progress of that process. It is not neccesary to wait for the uploads to finish. You can always return to the Upload Progress view via the menu option View Upload Progress.
- The optional second step of a Web Upload is changing the file and meta-data. In the current beta version (0.8) of S3Browse, the only meta-data you can change is the Content-Type. Future version will allow you to add other meta-data. After you press the Submit button you will see the Upload Progress view discussed in the previous bullit.
- Once the files have been transferred to Amazon S3, the local copies on the S3Browse server will be deleted automatically. This will also happen in case you cancel the upload.