Differences in operations when managing objects with versioning information

When using S3 Explorer to manage versioned objects, the operations differ slightly from the standard mode.

Standard Mode: Mode with version information disabled or not enabled.

1. Upload files or directories

The operation to upload files or directories is still supported.

In this scenario, every upload creates a brand-new corresponding entry on the remote server—distinguished only by a different version number—which coexists with any potentially existing older versions.

2. Delete operation

Normal Delete

The delete operation is still supported, but the result is different.

Standard Mode：

Deleting an object completely removes it from the server. The storage space occupied by the object is released, and the data is erased.

Deleting directories is no longer supported.

Version Enabled Mode:

Two types of deletion operations are supported here.：

1. Standard deletion; corresponds to the Delete menu item.

   After this deletion operation is executed, a delete marker is inserted into the object's version history, indicating that the current version has been deleted.

   A new version (deleted marker) will be added to the versions of current object.

2. Delete version; corresponds to the menu item "Delete current version".

   Executing this operation removes specific version information from the current object's version history.

   The version information will be removed from the current object.

   The second-newest version will become the current object's latest version.

3. Downloading directories is not supported

Within the same directory, a single object has different versions, and the actual content of these versions often differs.

In some cases, the latest version of an object is a deleted version, which cannot be downloaded.

Therefore, we have restricted the directory download function.

4. Download file

File downloading is still supported, but the behavior is different:

The downloaded object content consists of the data from the current version of the selected object.

Download operations are not supported for object versions that represent delete markers.

5. View Object Metadata

Still supported. However, the behavior differs:

The displayed metadata corresponds to the metadata of the selected object version.

This operation is not supported for object versions that represent delete markers.

6. Rename

Renaming is not supported

7. Generate share link

Generating share link is not supported.