Amazon S3 --- How to deal with $folder$ object

There are some useful applications which manipulate Amazon S3 objects. It seems that these tools create empty files such as "foobar_$folder$" when you create an "folder" from these tools. Maybe it is in order to distinguish which is folder name or file name.

Though Amazon S3 does not explicitly introduce "folder" concept, It seems to be de-fact standard.

But if you see these object from AWS console, you will see objects ending with "_$folder$" for all folders you have created from tools. It indicates there is difference of recognition against folder between S3 tool creator and AWS, I assume (AWS console seems to be using a character "/" as a folder delimiter.)

Why don't we bring a single collective view?

The reason why we can't delete folders from S3Fox

As you know Amazon S3 Firefox (a.k.a S3Fox, Ver. 0.4 so far) is a great tool to manage contents stored in Amazon S3. But you may be embarrased when you try to remove folders from S3Fox.

Amazon S3 does not distinguish files and folders separately. So S3Fox create an object with suffix "_$folder$" in bucket in Amazon S3, in order to manage folders for S3Fox itself.

It seems that S3Fox cannot manage such naming convention and it may be preventing from removing "folders."

As you might know, Amazon S3 does not allow to delete buckets if there are any contents in it. We need to do following procedure to clean up... damm!

- list keys in bucket b.
- for all keys key in bucket b:
- delete object for key.

I plan to create some web service to delete bucket without such iteration, but if you want to do it manually as I did, AWSZone http://www.awszone.com/ helps you do it.

listing all objects : http://www.awszone.com/scratchpads/aws/s3.us/ListBucket.aws
deleting objects : http://www.awszone.com/scratchpads/aws/s3.us/DeleteObject.aws

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