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Naga Abhinaya T
Explorer | Level 4

Hi,

 

I tried renaming a file in dropbox and the filename contained ":"(colon). Dropbox threw an alert message stating colon is not allowed in filenames. However, I am able to upload files with colon in its name via API. Is it allowed to upload files with ":" in dropbox? why is the restriction imposed on renaming alone?

 

Thanks,

Naga Abhinaya T.

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Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
The Dropbox web site is more restrictive than the Dropbox API with regards to characters like this.

You can find more information here:

https://www.dropbox.com/help/145
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