Folder won't delete on Amazon S3

Question

I\'m trying to delete a folder created as a result of a MapReduce job. Other files in the bucket delete just fine, but this folder won\'t delete. When I try to delete it from

Answer 1

I was facing the same problem. Tried many login, logout attempts and refresh but problem persist. Searched stackoverflow and found suggestions to cut and paste folder in different folder then delete but didn't worked. Another thing you should look is for versioning that might effect your bucket may be suspending the versioning allow you to delete the folder.

My solution was to delete it with code. I have used boto package in python for file handling over s3 and the deletion worked when I tried to delete that folder from my python code.

import boto
from boto.s3.key import Key
keyId = "your_aws_access_key"
sKeyId = "your_aws_secret_key"
fileKey="dummy/foldertodelete/" #Name of the file to be deleted
bucketName="mybucket001" #Name of the bucket, where the file resides
conn = boto.connect_s3(keyId,sKeyId) #Connect to S3
bucket = conn.get_bucket(bucketName) #Get the bucket object
k = Key(bucket,fileKey) #Get the key of the given object
k.delete() #Delete

S3 doesn't keep directory it just have a flat file structure so everything is managed with key. For you its a folder but for S3 it just an key.

If you want to delete a folder named -> dummy then key would be

fileKey = "/dummy/"