diff --git a/weed/s3api/filer_multipart.go b/weed/s3api/filer_multipart.go
index 9c2c9f658..38b73111c 100644
--- a/weed/s3api/filer_multipart.go
+++ b/weed/s3api/filer_multipart.go
@@ -1037,13 +1037,7 @@ func (s3a *S3ApiServer) listMultipartUploads(input *s3.ListMultipartUploadsInput
 		IsTruncated:  aws.Bool(false),
 	}
 
-	// A blip on the way to the filer, either on the ListEntries call or on the
-	// stream receives that follow it, used to fail the whole listing; replay it
-	// a bounded number of times before giving up.
-	uploadsFolder := s3a.genUploadsFolder(*input.Bucket)
-	entries, _, err := listWithRetry(uploadsFolder, func() ([]*filer_pb.Entry, bool, error) {
-		return s3a.list(uploadsFolder, "", *input.UploadIdMarker, false, math.MaxInt32)
-	})
+	entries, _, err := s3a.list(s3a.genUploadsFolder(*input.Bucket), "", *input.UploadIdMarker, false, math.MaxInt32)
 	if err != nil {
 		// A missing .uploads folder normally lists as empty with no error; a
 		// store that reports it as not-found still means an empty list.
@@ -1110,10 +1104,7 @@ func (s3a *S3ApiServer) listObjectParts(input *s3.ListPartsInput) (output *ListP
 		StorageClass:     aws.String("STANDARD"),
 	}
 
-	partsFolder := s3a.genUploadsFolder(*input.Bucket) + "/" + *input.UploadId
-	entries, isLast, err := listWithRetry(partsFolder, func() ([]*filer_pb.Entry, bool, error) {
-		return s3a.list(partsFolder, "", fmt.Sprintf("%04d%s", *input.PartNumberMarker, multipartExt), false, uint32(*input.MaxParts))
-	})
+	entries, isLast, err := s3a.list(s3a.genUploadsFolder(*input.Bucket)+"/"+*input.UploadId, "", fmt.Sprintf("%04d%s", *input.PartNumberMarker, multipartExt), false, uint32(*input.MaxParts))
 	if err != nil {
 		// A store that reports the missing upload directory as not-found means
 		// the upload is gone (completed or aborted), not a store error.
diff --git a/weed/s3api/filer_util.go b/weed/s3api/filer_util.go
index e15fb9f18..be4633e9e 100644
--- a/weed/s3api/filer_util.go
+++ b/weed/s3api/filer_util.go
@@ -83,52 +83,6 @@ func listWithRetry(parentDirectoryPath string, doList func() (entries []*filer_p
 
 }
 
-// Bounds for replaying a listing that failed with a transient error. A listing
-// is a read with no side effects and each attempt opens a new stream and
-// collects into a fresh slice, so replaying it can neither duplicate nor drop
-// entries. The bound keeps a filer that is genuinely down from stalling the S3
-// request: at most two extra attempts and 300ms of added wait.
-const (
-	listRetryAttempts       = 3
-	listRetryInitialBackoff = 100 * time.Millisecond
-)
-
-// isRetryableListError reports whether a failed listing is worth replaying. A
-// not-found answer is authoritative and every other non-transient error is a
-// real failure, so both must reach the caller unchanged: the point is to
-// survive a blip, not to hide a broken store.
-func isRetryableListError(err error) bool {
-	if err == nil || isFilerNotFound(err) {
-		return false
-	}
-	if status.Code(err) == codes.Unavailable {
-		return true
-	}
-	// DoSeaweedListWithSnapshot wraps a failed ListEntries call with %v, which
-	// drops the gRPC status from the error chain, so for that path the message
-	// is all that is left to classify on.
-	return util.IsTransientError(err)
-}
-
-// listWithRetry replays doList while the filer answers with a transient error.
-// Both failure points reported for multipart listing, the ListEntries call
-// itself and the stream.Recv that follows it, surface as a plain error out of
-// filer_pb.List, so a single retry point above it covers both.
-func listWithRetry(parentDirectoryPath string, doList func() (entries []*filer_pb.Entry, isLast bool, err error)) (entries []*filer_pb.Entry, isLast bool, err error) {
-
-	backoff := listRetryInitialBackoff
-	for attempt := 1; ; attempt++ {
-		entries, isLast, err = doList()
-		if err == nil || attempt >= listRetryAttempts || !isRetryableListError(err) {
-			return entries, isLast, err
-		}
-		glog.V(1).Infof("list %s attempt %d/%d hit a transient error, retrying in %v: %v", parentDirectoryPath, attempt, listRetryAttempts, backoff, err)
-		time.Sleep(backoff)
-		backoff *= 2
-	}
-
-}
-
 func (s3a *S3ApiServer) rm(parentDirectoryPath, entryName string, isDeleteData, isRecursive bool) error {
 
 	return s3a.WithFilerClient(false, func(client filer_pb.SeaweedFilerClient) error {