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Enable Emoji in file names.

Enable Emoji in file names.

Link1328
New member | Level 2

I use emoji’s to help me find things quicker.  I would like to add an emoji from the apple keyboard to the file folder name but when I click on rename and add the emoji it says “invalid folder name...the folder name contains invalid characters”.  Here is an example I wish to change “Vehicles and DOT” folder to say           “:automobile:Vehicle and DOT” 

25 Comments
timmattison
New member | Level 2

Generic filename support should be a requirement to avoid edge cases. I just got a notification about a file that won't sync today because of this. Unfortunately for me if that file is missing from my other machines my whole system will not work. For my own files it is a hassle but I can rename them. But for files that other people provide me (via git usually) I don't have any control over their names.

nick_riches
Explorer | Level 4

Yes. This is really vital for me, as I'm beginning to use emojis to organise my files.

Armagedoom
New member | Level 2

My whole filesystem is based upon emoji-named files to see in a gasp. The more time passes the more people are going to use emojis (younger more emoji-usedto-people). Please add this.

aronskaya
New member | Level 2

Some emojis are supported, and this is the worst. I never know which one will sync and which ones won't. As all the popular file systems support file names with emoji, it sounds more than reasonable that a file syncing app should.

 

I would appreciate it very much.

endnoter
Helpful | Level 7

Dropbox will not sync most of my files with emojis in their names (now over 4,000).  The emojis were not put there by me -- but by people who sent me email. I know Dropbox is aware of the issue.  But many other backup services don't have this problem.  I love Dropbox and would hate to have to switch.  But I need file names with emojis in them to sync to dropbox.  So do a lot of other people. Let's fix this, please.

ent-search-dev
New member | Level 2

When you create your first Dropbox Paper document, the document is automatically named: 

😃 My Paper doc

 but then when you try to interact with this document in the API, it's:

 

  "name": "_ My Paper doc.paper",

  "path_lower": "/_ my paper doc.paper",

  "path_display": "/_ My Paper doc.paper",

Kinda a **bleep**ty way to advertise your own feature.

Luciel
Explorer | Level 3

+1

shsagnik
New member | Level 2

we want emoji support

Faulkner
New member | Level 2

I use emojis as tags in filenames with Obsidian but need Dropbox to support them

pfm
Explorer | Level 4

I also didn't know this was a problem until I started using Obsidian on top of my markdown files. Using emoji is a very user-friendly way of visually differentiating files from each other. It's terribly unfriendly to leave it up to users to figure out which emoji are supported and which are not. I would *love* this to work as I have been a Dropbox user for many years and would hate to go to (ugh) Google Drive or other alternative.

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