AWS S3 File Names - Troubleshooting
How to delete S3 files that contains spaces or non ASCII characters
Today it rains, and when water pours down the window, I shouldn’t be coding at all. Actually, that would be a problem because I live in Sweden and here it rains a lot, but that is definitely not the problem I had today.
Today’s problem is way way weird.
If you try to upload a file to S3, and that filename contains weird characters or spaces, you will find it very difficult to delete it.
Try to upload something like: Lönebesked Marco April.pdf (it’s my paycheck in Swedish…)
The upload works no questions asked, then when I use the AWS console and try to delete it, a generic error happens. No details, no explanations. The file doesn’t go away. WTF??
The solution is to use the AWS' cli tool and delete it from the command line, with all the spaces escaped:
aws s3api delete-object --bucket my-bucket --key folder/sub\ folder/Lönebesked\ Marco\ April.pdfBelieve me, it wasn’t easy to find this trick out!