ossbrowser is a graphical management tool that is provided by Alibaba Cloud to help you easily manage buckets and objects in Object Storage Service (OSS). For example, you can use ossbrowser to create buckets, delete buckets, upload objects, download objects, preview objects, copy objects, move objects, and share objects.
Video tutorial
Watch the following tutorial video to get started with ossbrowser.
Prerequisites
ossbrowser is installed, and you have logged on to ossbrowser. For more information, see Install and log on to ossbrowser.
OSS is activated. For more information, see Activate OSS.
Bucket and object operations
You can use ossbrowser to perform the same bucket-level and object-level operations that you can perform in the OSS console. You can follow the on-screen instructions in ossbrowser to manage buckets and objects.
To perform operations on buckets or objects, you must have the required permissions. For more information, see Manage permissions.
For more information about a specific operation, see the topic related to the operation in the OSS console.
Category | Operation | Description |
Bucket operations | Create a bucket | A bucket is a container used to store objects in OSS. Before you upload an object to OSS, you must create a bucket. For more information about bucket naming rules, regions, access control lists (ACLs), and storage classes, see Create buckets. |
Delete a bucket | If you no longer use a bucket, delete the bucket to avoid unnecessary charges. For more information, see Delete buckets. | |
Object operations | Upload an object | By default, ossbrowser uses multipart upload and resumable upload to upload an object. The object to upload cannot exceed 48.8 TB in size. If an upload is interrupted before the upload is complete, the uploaded portion is stored as parts in the bucket. If you no longer need these parts, you can use one of the following methods to delete the parts to avoid additional storage fees.
Important If the uploaded object has the same name as an existing object in the bucket, the existing object is overwritten. |
Upload a directory | Click to upload a directory. | |
Download an object | Select the object to download and click Download in the Actions column. Note You can also select multiple objects and click Download in the upper part of the page to download them at a time. | |
Download a directory | Select the directory and click . | |
Preview an object | Click the name of an object. | |
Copy an object | Select the object to copy, click Copy, and in the destination bucket, click Paste. | |
Move an object | Choose More > Move. Note The object that you can move or copy by using ossbrowser cannot exceed 5 GB in size. To move or copy an object that is larger than 5 GB, we recommend that you use ossutil. | |
Share an object | You can share the URL of an object with third parties. This way, the third parties can download or preview the object. Find the object to share and click Address in the Actions column to generate a URL. | |
Configure a symbolic link |
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