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Transmit 3.6 Adds Amazon S3 Support

September 16, 2007 by debbie T | Mac Software • Web Development

I am a huge fan of Transmit, the Mac FTP (SFTP) app from Panic. So you can imagine my glee when I heard that they added support for Amazon S3 to the newest version (3.6)

I have been using JungleDisk, and I found that worked very well, but getting things started was a bit awkward. I had to launch JungleDisk, and then connect to localhost using “connect to server” - it was a few extra steps, once it was up and running, it was great.

So, I was thrilled to hear the news about Transmit; I immediately downloaded and updated. I set up my S3 user info and password, and it connected right away. Problems started when I tried to access my default directory (the one Amazon set up for me with the really really long file name). It just hangs for minutes, never being able to open it.

It looks like Paul Stamatiou also experienced this issue with larger buckets. Note: Buckets are what Amazon calls their directories - every bucket must have a unique name. Since I keep over 10gb of files in my default directory, I guess Transmit chokes when trying to access it all at once. I had the same problem when using the Firefox extension S3Fox.

So, I figured I would experiment and try uploading some files to new buckets outside the default directory. That seemed to work okay, but I hit a snag again when I tried to access a large file containing my photo files.

Oh well, I will continue to experiment with Transmit and S3, but I will probably stick to JungleDisk for large backups. It works for me!

There are 3 comments

  1. What did you use for User Name and Password in your Transmit configuration for S3? I have tried entering my Amazon “Access Key ID” and “Secret Access Key” in the two fields, but the S3 server rejects them.

    Comment by dave on October 4th, 2007

  2. Hey Dave,

    That is strange. Yes, that is exactly how I am connecting.

    Are you copying and pasting? Make sure there are no extra blank spaces.

    Have you ever connected to S3 before with any other app, besides Transmit. If not, try the Firefox extension S3Fox, the link is in the article.

    I am sorry you have having such issues. Let me know!

    Comment by debbieT on October 4th, 2007

  3. Dave replied to me that there was indeed a problem with a “space” in his password. All is working now!

    Thanks for writing back Dave!

    Comment by debbieT on October 5th, 2007

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