Feature Requests

S3Drive can be used in a self-hosted mode, being fully offline. The challenge is that paid users (Ultimate, Business) might need 100% offline solution, where they connect only to their internal network. In such case verifying a license wouldn't work, as currently user needs to login to their S3Drive account. This task is to implement offline licensing. As an example, app could generate a code which could then be "signed" on the app/website with the internet connection. This signed verification code could be then re-imported back to the app for an offline use. The exact implementation details might change, as long as we get to this.

We've received multiple requests where user (in that case admin) would like to create a an S3Drive account (or group of accounts) to which they would assign custom S3 credentials. Once this is setup admin would then provide these credentials either internally (within company/org) or externally (usually storage resell) to the end-user. Additionally, S3Drive could provide an option to proxy this traffic through their own infrastructure to provide additional features on top of S3 (caching, native encryption, resource sharing, storage analytics). On top of that we could allow SSO login, so the end user wouldn't even need to user e-mail/password, but instead could login using their company's auth system.

At the moment in order to generate thumbnails we download the file (decrypt if required), create a thumbnail, write to local cache and the upload it back to .thumb location. The issue is that this also happen for newly uploaded files, so the user uploads file, only for S3Drive to download (and decrypt if required) it back in order to generate a thumbnail. Downloading file back in order to generate thumbnail wouldn't be required if we've had generated thumbnail locally before uploading file. In a first iteration, we'll generate local thumbnail for files/folder upload and media backup functionality. In a later stage we'll modify our integration with Rclone, so we can also generate thumbnails for Sync / Mount. For generating thumbnails at all, please see existing item: https://s3drive.canny.io/feature-requests/p/generate-thumbnails which as of 17th Jan 2024 is a work in progress and expected to be released end of January.

Despite lots of improvements in the past couple releases, background uploads on iOS still doesn't work as expected. This is to resolve any remaining issues preventing from background backup to run. UPDATE: Since release 1.6.4 there is a further improvement. Background backup should happen once device is connected to the charger and usually overnight. This is a limitation of iOS background framework: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/backgroundtasks and there isn't much we can do about. We will be exploring next improvements and tricks that we can implement in order to improve this further.

At the moment it's only possible to "offline" file or folder that's present in the root path.

At the moment the only way to create a bucket from S3Drive is to use + button on the initial S3 login screen. This task is to allow user seamlessly to create a bucket from within their already valid S3 connection.

Changes on one device would automatically propagate to the other device. That means that if you add/delete/modify file on your phone, such change would automatically be visible on your desktop and web and vice-versa