Comments on: 4 Apps to Manage Amazon S3 on a Mac

By: Tiger

Tiger — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 13:26:04 +0000

Mighty useful. Make no mistake, I aprepacite it.

By: AlexTomson

AlexTomson — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:30:37 +0000

Sure thing. Glad you liked it. Now available with a short and sweet URL: http://www.s3fm.com/” target=”_blank”>http://www.s3fm.com/

By: abrudtkuhl

abrudtkuhl — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:39:54 +0000

Alex – that's is a very cool tool thank you for sharing!

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:21:24 +0000

Great post! You can also include in your list S3fm, an online Amazon S3 file manager. Works with all majors OSs and browsers including mac/safari

http://s3.amazonaws.com/s3fm/index.html

100% Ajax, no installation required, runs directly from Amazon S3 servers, secure and convenient.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:41:33 +0000

I would suggest to add the CrossFTP into the list, a very stable client. http://www.crossftp.com/
Its foundation version is free and supports normal S3 and FTP operations.

By: gabor

gabor — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:21:40 +0000

Would just like to add ForkLift to the list. I use ForkLift for file management, but it also happens to handle my S3 account and can also backup data to S3 from my other FTP accounts, without having to first move them to my local machine. Granted, this may not be such a big deal for other users, but I manage several websites, and it makes doing backups much easier.
Also, it lets me preview and edit files over s3.

By: abrudtkuhl

abrudtkuhl — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:48:31 +0000

ForkLift looks very cool thanks for recommending it!

By: Andy Brudtkuhl

Andy Brudtkuhl — Tue, 26 May 2009 17:43:27 +0000

Alex – Thanks for the follow up on your experience! Perhaps a guest post is in order!

By: Alex Luft

Alex Luft — Mon, 25 May 2009 16:59:00 +0000

So after trying out Cyberduck, Transmit, and S3Hub, only one worked 100%: Transmit.

- Cyberduck didn’t even connect to S3. It didn’t recognize the user name/password, even after regenerating the secret access key (password) on amazon’s web services site.

- S3Hub connected. But couldn’t delete more than a certain amount of files at a time. I had about 10,000 files that were a few years old up on S3 in one bucket. I needed to delete all of them. But when I selected more than 50 files at a time and deleted, S3Hub hung. So it wasn’t really deleting anything, just hanging.

- Transmit did the trick. It deleted everything I needed to be deleted in one fell swoop. I’m now uploading 50GB worth of raw podcast files from my podcast http://podcast.TechNestReport.com that I needed off my local drive. It seems to be going just fine. The only “downside” is that Transmit costs $30, but I’ll gladly pay for quality software.

Well, there you have it. Hopefully Cyberduck and S3Hub will get better by this time next year. One can only hope!

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By: Andy Brudtkuhl

Andy Brudtkuhl — Mon, 18 May 2009 18:45:43 +0000

Let me know how it goes.. Transmit should work just like an FTP client