The quick guide is aimed at people who prefer to use the program rather than read endless text on how to use it. It provides a few instructions but concentrates on explaining what mode you should be working in.
Bucket Creation
Transferring Files to and from S3
Segmented DownLoads
ACLs
Synchronization
The detailed guide concentrates on instructions. Or will in the future
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Important: Sissle NSE opening and saving files directly on Amazon S3 with applications.
Firstly an explanation of how this is achieved technically which will lead us directly to the main problem.
Sissle NSE is an extension to windows explorer, which is why it will appear in the open dialog.
Applications can not access Amazon S3 directly, so there has to be some trickery *.
Sissle NSE intercepts the "ok" of the "open file" dialog and transfers
the selected file to a temporary folder on disk and then finishes the
open dialog by altering the file location to the file now in the
temporary folder.
Here lies the problem you may stumble over. Next time you use your
application, the "recent files" will show your file in the temporary
folder. This file will exist and most probably be most up to date
version, but when you save this file it will only be written to the
temporary folder not to Amazon S3.
It is important each time you open a file in S3 that you slavishly navigate to it on S3 and please ignore any recent lists.
On save Sissle notices that the file has changed and writes it back to
S3. Application can lock files and this will stop Sissle from doing its
job of writing back to S3. How different applications are written is
impossible to know, therefore there is a certain amount of luck in this
mechanism working.
