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XLRotor
Explorer | Level 3
3 years ago

In dropbox.com/Camera Uploads, file names with colons are not synched to Windows

At Dropbox.com in my Camera Uploads folder I have over 900 jpg files which contain a colon (i.e. : ) in their file names.  For example 20161202-15:51 - 15.51.19.jpg It seems these files will not sy...
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XLRotor's avatar
XLRotor
Explorer | Level 3
3 years ago

I reckon sometime in 2022 one of the coders at Dropbox realized that colons were a bad idea.  As of today one can't get a colon even if you wanted to.

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Jay
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3 years ago

Colons would never be used via camera uploads, as it is well-known that Windows cannot handle : and | symbols, along with others for many years. 

 

The files would always be renamed in the same format using dashes and dots.

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