Which S3 manager creates '_$folder$' files for pseudo-folders?

Question

I know that S3 has no folders, and I'm working with an inherited application that has some buckets filled with folder_name_$folder$ items. I know that a lot of different tools use these files, or other folder sigils, depending on the tool, to help represent 'folders' to various visual interfaces. I'm wondering which one uses this particular convention.

I'd like to remove them so that my various rake tasks that run down lists of files can go faster, but I'm afraid I'll end up breaking some tool that someone else in the company uses. Can anyone say which tools create these keys, and what functionality, if any, removing them would break? S3fox? The main AWS console?

Answer 1

the _$folder$ folders are created with S3Fox, AWS Console doesn't create them. you can safely delete them if you like

Thanks Andy