How to rename files or folders in an Amazon S3 bucket using CloudBerry Explorer

Note: this post applies to CloudBerry Explorer for Amazon S3 1.3 or later.

Sometime you need to rename a file or a folder just like you do it on your local computer. Until recently Amazon didn’t offer rename support and the only way to rename a object we to upload the object with a new name and delete the old one.

Things changed recently with an introduction of copy enhancements that support for object and we decided to takes Amazon lead and support copy files and folders in CloudBerry Explorer.

All you have to do is to select a file or folder you want to rename and click on the “Rename” button on the toolbar. 

You can use F2 keyboard standard hot key tool. Now, type the new name and click ok. The file of folder will be renamed – as simple as that.

What if I want to rename a bucket

Unfortunately there is no easy way to rename a bucket. The only possibility is to create a new bucket with the name you want and copy the contents of old bucket to a new one. The good thing is that the transfer between buckets in the same geographical zone is free of charge and CloudBerry Explorer has an option to copy files between buckets w/o downloading them to your local computer.

In the future releases we will try to automate this process as much as possible, but you have to keep in mind that renaming a bucket involve data movement and might take quite some time.

Alternatively, you can use an AMI EC2 machine specifically designed to rename buckets. Check out Amazon Discussion forum thread here – it contains a lot of useful information.

 

As always we hope you liked our post and we invite you to download CloudBerry Explorer for Amazon S3 at our website at http://cloudberrylab.com/