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Christian W.10
Helpful | Level 5
8 years ago
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Dropbox not syncing files with emojis in the filename

Hello,   I am trying to use dropbox to sync an application that has a bunch of image files in a subfolder. The image files are of emojis, and each filename IS the emoji that it represents. For exam...
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  • Jay's avatar
    Jay
    6 years ago

    Hi aronskaya, thanks for messaging the Community!

     

    Some emojis are supported, however, the issue is related to UTF encoding.


    The emojis that aren't working (along with many other, newer emoji) use 4 bytes, which our filesystem doesn't support. The emoji that do work on Dropbox.com are those that use less than 4 bytes.

     

    Dropbox supports using emoji that fall in the Basic Multilingual Plance in file and folder names on the website (although there are some OSes that might not sync the files to your desktop computer due to not playing nice with local filesystems).

     

    Emoji that fall into the Supplementary Multilingual Plane won't work with the Dropbox underlying filesystem, newer emoji fall into this category and are not expected to sync with Dropbox.

     

    Hope this helps to clarify matters!

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ajairajraj
Explorer | Level 4
4 years ago

Are there any plans to provide fuller emoji support in filenames?

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Dormouse
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

I'm thinking of moving my working files from Dropbox because of the lack of emoji support.

 

Most of the explanations of the issue - including those in this thread - are wrong. The best account I have found to identify emojis that do work is that to avoid all emojis coded U+1F. Nearly (nearly!!!) all of those I have tried with other codes do work - so far I have found two that don't, though I haven't tested quite all of them.

 

But that excludes most emojis and requires individual testing of each one. I have a list of most of those that work at this point in time. Can I trust that the same list will always work in the future? - obviously not because Dropbox is determinedly non-communicative about the issue and such knowledge as there is has been dug up by users. The fact that these work now may just be a quirk of the current programming.

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