CloudBerry Explorer for Amazon S3 – What’s New in release 1.3

We are excited to announce that CloudBerry Explorer 1.3 is out! Here is an overview of new features.

Performance improvements

Many of you complained about using CloudBerry Explorer with large number of files stored on S3 account. We are now using full power of Amazon S3 API to make your experience as smooth as possible. When you have a deep folder structure in your bucket we will read only the files in the current folder. This makes retrieving the list of files much faster. We also use a virtual list view that reads only the first 1000 files from the bucket so that if you are opening a bucket with thousands of files we will show it contents almost instantly. This makes CloudBerry Explorer a tool of choice for real production systems.  We will have an additional blog with more details about it.

Amazon “Requestor pay” option support

 There is an additional option in CloudBerry Explorer that requires you one click to enable “requester pay” option. We will have an additional blog post explaining this feature.

Rename support

We are now using newer Amazon Copy API enhancements to offer an efficient rename feature. Now you can rename files and folders. Renaming buckets is a little bit more involved and coming in the new version.

Streamincloud.com support

Streamincloud.com is a free FLV encoder for Amazon S3 and CloudFront. They will monitor your bucket for new video files and encode them in the popular Flash FLV video format.  

We now made it even easier for those of you who use the service as streamincloud account is now available in the list of default account in CloudBerry Explorer ACL editor.  If you don’t use StreamInCloud.com yet, we highly recommend checking out their website at http://www.streamincloud.com/

We will also provide an additional post explaining how to configure your bucket for streamincloud.com service in more details.

New PowerShell commands

New PowerShell commands for creating buckets, managing ACLs, etc. check out our web site for more details on new commands http://www.cloudberrylab.com/default.aspx?page=amazon-s3-powershell#newin1_3

 

Other features

Annoying “do you really want to exit window” is no longer there! Only if you have a running copy/move process we will display a warning message. In all other cases the tool will just gracefully close.

We also support object starting with slash. Previous version of the Explorer failed to show them properly as indicated in the blog post. Now this issue is solved.

New Forum

We have to admit that we have screwed up our Discussion Forum, with a lot of irrelevant advertisements it was not a place where you would seek an adequate answer to your questions. We have replaced the forum software and we will try to keep it clean of unrelated content and provide you with timely feedback. Please check it out at http://cloudberrylab.com/forum/default.aspx?g=topics&f=1

Find us on Facebook

CloudBerry Explorer is now on Facebook, please take a moment, visit the page and become a fan. http://www.facebook.com/pages/CloudBerry-Explorer/59125891004   In the future we will be providing additional incentives for Facebook fans only!

If you have any idea on how to make CloudBerry Explorer better or simply want to report an issue go to   http://www.cloudberrylab.com/?page=support  . We will appreciate that very much!

 

You can download the new version of CloudBerry Explorer for free at http://cloudberrylab.com/