ACL improvements in CloudBerry Explorer 1.2

As we released version 1.2 I would like to fullfil my promise and share some more information with CloudBerry Explorer users. The information is related to ACL settings in S3. Now you can apply ACL to the list of selected object and all its child objects. For instance, you can setup ACL on a bucket and apply the same ACL to all foders and files inside that bucket. All you have to do is to make sure that "Apply for all subfolders and files" checkbox is checked off. See the screen. Note: that the operation may take long time if a number of child objects is large.

This is very useful and saves a lot of time when you want to apply the same permission to all files in the bucket at ones. We hope you will like a new feature and if you have questions or comments feel free to leave a comment in the blog or contact us directly.

Another cool feature I would like to talk about is an automatic ACL inheritance. You can specify if you want to apply ACL of the bucket settings to all objects that you upload to S3. It is convinient, for instance, if you use a bucket to store pictures that you want to share with other people. You may configure ACL to allow read access to AllUsers group, which basically means that any internet user can view files.

So, once you specify an ACL for a bucket everytime you copy a new picture into that bucket it will inherit permissions form the bucket and the picture will become public. Note: that this option is global and applys to every bucket in your S3 account.