Hi all - Created a bucket with Object Lock, using the Governance, option. I was testing an app and figured, through Storj’s description of the permissions, that I could then create a user with the BypassGovernance flag to remove any testing buckets/objects I was using. Went through testing, etc., …

Hello @cphaynes , Welcome back! [image] Remove object lock in governance mode Product Discussions You may also configure rclone with Storj S3 and use this method: rclone purge us1-gw-mt:my-locked-bucket --header "x-amz-bypass-governance-retention:true" However, it requi…

[image] Remove object lock in governance mode Product Discussions I’m aware this might be a bit of a silly situation. I signed up for the 30 day trial and figured I’d try the object lock feature. For some reason I picked 1 year as a retention with governance as mode. The r…

Alexey - Came to say thank you for your response. Your suggestion to download and try an older version of Uplink worked like a champ, first try. Amazing. RClone did not work as I continually received an “API” not authorized error. I tried this method first (already had RC installed) using the sam…

[image] cphaynes: using the same API credentials I’ve always been using, and had the same issue That’s a culprit. You need to use credentials with a specific permission, called BypassGovernanceRetention, which is not a part of default Full permissions, so you need to use a special S3 credenti…

I guess I should have clarified, apologies. I should have said that I created new keys with those permissions you mentioned to test Object Lock on a bucket. Nothing worked, at all, except the older version of Uplink.

The new uplink version has a flag to bypass governance lock. Uplink will not silently ignore governance locks. You have to add that flag.

Thank you for the feedback. I tested locally and with that permissions the rclone purge with that header worked. But you need to use Storj S3 integration, not native and need to know the encryption phrase. Maybe something else was wrong. I’m glad that the new version of uplink CLI made it, thank y…

Object Locked (Governance) Bucket/Files - Cannot Remove

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Alexey March 27, 2025, 4:50am 3

Hello @cphaynes,
Welcome back!