Show HN: WinCse – Integrating AWS S3 with Windows Explorer

61 points · cbh34680 · 2 days ago

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.

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password4321 · 2 days ago

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!

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js4ever · 2 days ago

This is a very early/basic implementation by looking at the limitations:

- 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

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nimish · 1 days ago

Neat! The "native" version of FUSE for windows is a "Shell Namespace Extension" and might make it a little more integrated.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/shell/namesp...

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glonq · 2 days ago

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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whatever1 · 2 days ago

Isn’t this Dropbox ? (Okok joking)

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