Creating Folders

1. In the navigation pane of OBS Console, choose Buckets.
2. In the bucket list, click the desired bucket. The Objects page is displayed.
3. Click Create Folder, or click a folder in the object list to open it and click Create Folder.
4. In the Folder Name text box, enter a name for the folder.
   • You can create single-level or multi-level folders.
   • Each slash (/) acts as a separator and defines a new folder level.
   • The name cannot contain a dot-slash (./) or a backslash (\).
   • The name cannot end with a slash (/) or a period (.).
   • The name cannot contain two or more consecutive slashes (/).
   • The folder's absolute path cannot exceed 1,023 bytes.

5. Click OK.

To create a folder in OBS is to create an object whose size is 0 and whose name ends with a slash (/), in essential. For details, see Using APIs.

To create a folder in OBS is to create an object whose size is 0 and whose name ends with a slash (/), in essential. For details, see Using SDKs.

1. Log in to OBS Browser+.
2. Click the bucket where you want to create a folder and click Create Folder.
3. In the displayed dialog box, enter a folder name and click OK, as shown in Figure 1.
   Figure 1 Creating a folder
   
   • A folder name cannot contain the following special characters: \:*?'<>|
   • A folder name cannot start or end with a period (.) or slash (/).
   • A folder name cannot exceed 1,023 bytes. The length of a folder name is the sum of the length of its own name and the length of its upper-level directory names. The total length cannot exceed 1,023 bytes. Directories of different levels are automatically separated by slashes (/). For example, if the upper-level directory of folder01 is folder02, the name length of folder folder01 is the length of folder02/folder01/.
   • A single slash (/) separates and creates multiple levels of folders.

   

   If an access deny message is displayed when you are creating a folder, possible causes are as follows:

   • Access to the bucket is restricted by an ACL. For example, you do not have the write permission for the bucket.
   • Access to the bucket is restricted by a bucket policy. For example, you do not have the write permission for the bucket, or write operations cannot be performed on the bucket during the current period.

   If such a message is displayed, check the bucket's ACL and policy settings and resolve the problem accordingly.

4. Click OK.

Command Line Structure

• Windows
  • Creating a folder in a specified bucket

    obsutil mkdir obs://bucket/folder[/subfolder1/subfolder2] [-config=xxx] [-e=xxx] [-i=xxx] [-k=xxx] [-t=xxx]

  • Creating a folder in the local file system

    obsutil mkdir folder_url [-config=xxx] [-e=xxx] [-i=xxx] [-k=xxx] [-t=xxx]

• macOS or Linux
  • Creating a folder in a specified bucket

    ./obsutil mkdir obs://bucket/folder[/subfolder1/subfolder2] [-config=xxx] [-e=xxx] [-i=xxx] [-k=xxx] [-t=xxx]

  • Creating a folder in the local file system

    ./obsutil mkdir folder_url [-config=xxx] [-e=xxx] [-i=xxx] [-k=xxx] [-t=xxx]

Examples

• In Windows, run obsutil mkdir obs://bucket-test/folder1/folder2 to create a folder in the bucket.

  obsutil mkdir obs://bucket-test/folder1/folder2
  
  The bucket [bucket-test] does not support POSIX, create folder(s) step by step
  Create folder [obs://bucket-test/folder1/] successfully, request id [0000016979E1D23C860BB3D8E4577C5E]
  Create folder [obs://bucket-test/folder1/folder2] successfully, request id [0000016979E1D2B2860BB5181229C72C]

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