[HN Gopher] Show HN: WinCse - Integrating AWS S3 with Windows Ex...
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       Show HN: WinCse - Integrating AWS S3 with Windows Explorer
        
       WinCse is an application that integrates AWS S3 buckets with
       Windows Explorer. Utilizing WinFsp and the AWS SDK, WinCse allows
       you to treat S3 buckets as part of your local file system, making
       file management simpler. The application is currently in
       development, with plans for additional features and improvements.
        
       Author : cbh34680
       Score  : 45 points
       Date   : 2025-02-20 17:53 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | js4ever wrote:
       | This is a very early/basic implementation by looking at the
       | limitations:
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       | - File system editing is not yet supported (planned for future
       | updates).
       | 
       | - Files larger than 4MB are not supported at this time.
       | 
       | - Referencing buckets in different regions fails.
       | 
       | - Only up to 1000 files can be displayed in a single directory
        
         | cbh34680 wrote:
         | Thank you for your comment. As you pointed out, this software
         | is a simple implementation that utilizes WinFsp and AWS SDK. I
         | hope that by continuously improving it, it will become more
         | useful over time.
        
       | m-s-y wrote:
       | I can understand using software like this in conjunction with
       | local cacheing, but it seems to me that direct access to S3 would
       | be fraught with edge cases and performance issues.
        
         | cbh34680 wrote:
         | Thank you for your comment. While there is still room for
         | improvement, I am currently caching short-term requests in
         | memory or on disk as much as possible. Moving forward, I plan
         | to actively cache items that can be cached.
        
       | password4321 wrote:
       | In case anyone is not aware, https://github.com/rclone/rclone
       | written in Go is the established swiss army knife of cloud
       | storage sync, and supports mounting on Windows with many caveats
       | (https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_mount/).
       | 
       | Congratulations on hitting the HN frontpage with your new
       | project, mounting cloud storage locally is definitely a topic of
       | interest!
        
         | cbh34680 wrote:
         | Thank you for your comments. I found WinFsp to be very
         | practical, so I tried implementing it in combination with the
         | AWS SDK. While I believe RClone should be used in practice, I
         | want to continue development for experimental purposes as well.
        
       | whatever1 wrote:
       | Isn't this Dropbox ? (Okok joking)
        
       | mNovak wrote:
       | I think there's a lot of interest in this topic generally, so I
       | hope this continues to develop. I for one pay for ExpanDrive, and
       | am also aware of Mountain Duck in this space.
       | 
       | In my experience, those options are functional for infrequent
       | operations, but not constant daily interaction, in the way you
       | can with Dropbox for instance. Offline caching is of course one
       | major aspect, but also I presume lots of error handling hidden in
       | the background for smooth operation.
        
       | glonq wrote:
       | Cool. I've been using Cyberduck as my awesome/free S3 GUI, but
       | it's always great to see something new and different!
        
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