Documentation

Quick reference. (Coming soon — for now, the AWS setup walkthrough covers most of what you need to know.)

Archive a folder

Open the Archive tab → Choose a Folder… → confirm the scan summary → Archive to Glacier Deep Archive. IceBox packages the folder into a .tar, uploads it to Glacier Deep Archive with a resumable multipart upload, and writes a manifest to your bucket.

Verify and “Archive in place”

Once an archive shows up in Library, click Verify — IceBox does a quick HeadObject against AWS and confirms the SHA-256 checksum from the upload matches the one S3 stored. After the green badge appears, Archive in place… moves the original folder to your Trash (recoverable from Finder for 30 days) and leaves a tiny .iceboxed bookmark file where it was.

Double-click the .iceboxed file any time later and IceBox opens to that archive in Library.

Restore

In Library, find an archive and click Restore. Pick a tier:

• Standard — up to 12 hours, ~$0.02/GB retrieval.
• Bulk — up to 48 hours, ~$0.0025/GB retrieval (cheaper).

Confirm the cost preview. Track the restore under the Restores tab. When it’s ready (you’ll get an email if SNS is configured), hit Download… and pick where to save the .tar.

Browse archived photo folders

Folders containing image files get a grid icon in their Library row. Click it to see every photo in the archive — without retrieving anything from Glacier. Thumbnails are stored locally on first archive; they survive across launches.