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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 “🚗Vehicle and DOT”
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- Walter
Dropbox Staff
Status changed:Gathering SupporttoNot for right now I've run into this issue trying to sync an Obsidian vault. And, by the way, using emojis is a really nice way to sort your stuff! It's unbelievable that this is still not supported in 2021.
Will probably have to use another cloud storage to sync Obsidian vaults, and then, maybe, everything else as I plan to use emojis more actively.
+1 to full Unicode support.
I'm syncing thousands of files and some of them contain special characters. Many of those files were created by external programs (for instance, saving a webpage as PDF for later) and I'm being forced to update eeevery title because of this.
I had no problem with iCloud, which just allows you to upload "anything you can have in you disk", as expected.
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.
I use emojis as tags in filenames with Obsidian but need Dropbox to support them
we want emoji support
+1
When you create your first Dropbox Paper document, the document is automatically named:
😃 My Paper docbut 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.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.
Can I support this wholeheartedly? I'm using a next-generation note-taking app which stores notes as markdown files (Logseq - check it out, it's amazing, but there's also Roam Research and Obsidian, which work in a similar way). I would like to use emojis for note titles. This greatly improves my organisation. I just cannot get this to work in dropbox, due to the failure to sync files with emojis in the filenames. Please implement this, Dropbox. If you do a bit of research on Logseq, Roam, and Obsidian (I think Joplin notes is also another one), you will find that these types of apps are really taking off, and many users have a preference to use emojis in filenames. If this is not implemented soon, I am going to have to consider migrating to Google Drive for my note-syncing.
