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Emojis in filenames are finally here! 🥳

Hey everyone! We’ve got some exciting news - Dropbox now supports way more characters in filenames and folders! Emojis are now supported across all surfaces, and it’s available to everyone! That means support for emojis like 🚀, 🎵, 🏴‍☠️, plus rare scripts like 𩸽, اللهِ, and even mathematical symbols like 𝛑 or 𝔸. This long-requested update fixes the issue of files not syncing properly due to unsupported characters, so everything now works just as expected.

Whether you’re jazzing up a folder name with a little ✨ flair ✨or using your native language to stay in flow, we hope this update brings a little extra delight to your day and the way you work.

Give it a go and let us know what you think! And of course, thank you to @Link1328 for the idea and everyone who contributed to the thread!

Let us know what you think, share your feedback or any other requests for characters to support below 👇

Happy organizing!

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radical_exponent

Super proud of the team who shipped this! And thank you to all the community members who kept the dream of full unicode support alive!

vladgasan

Huge win for users who rely on emoji naming to organize their files and folders! 🚀

DBoxTips

Finally! This is awesome and was long due. Congrats to the individual contributors who shipped this!

Thanks,
Andrew (DBoxTips)

P.S. I am a volunteer on the Dropbox forums, freely and happily sharing know-how with other users, not affiliated with Dropbox in any way.

Theresa

Hey folks, as @Amy mentioned - this update was actually inspired by an idea shared right here in the community, which just goes to show how much your voices really matter.

Maybe you’ve got an idea of your own? Check out this thread for the latest on how the ideas board works, plus some handy tips & tricks.

If you have any other questions about the ideas process, just tag me – happy to help!

T 😺 (Dropbox Community Manager)

hottiehandmade

Hi @Amy,

I am still having some trouble syncing my files that have emojis in the file name. Are you able to provide a list of emojis that are now accepted? I just installed Dropbox and therefore have the newest version and am unsure if I need to do anything addition to that for this feature to work. Thank you!

Jay

Hi @hottiehandmade, thanks for your message.

There should be full Unicode support for filenames, and full emoji and character sets.

Could you confirm that you've updated the Dropbox desktop application to the latest version?

This will help me to assist further!

hottiehandmade

Hi @Jay

Sure! I am on version 454.2.2 for Mobile and 238.4.6075 on Windows

Rich

hottiehandmade wrote:
I am still having some trouble syncing my files that have emojis in the file name.

What is the filename length, including the full path starting at the drive letter? For example, the following would have a filename length of 98 characters, including the extra null character at the end.

C:\Users\Username\Dropbox\Folder1\Folder2\Folder3\Folder4\TST2019009H0123-00231 1600px square.jpg

hottiehandmade

Hi @Rich

Here is an example with the filename length of 71 characters including extra null character at the end

C:\Users\kneeo\Dropbox\Apps\remotely-save\The Pocket Realm\Untitled.md

Rich

hottiehandmade wrote:
Here is an example with the filename length of 71 characters including extra null character at the end

Thanks for that. I was wondering if you were hitting the filename length limit that exists in Windows, and emojis complicate that as they count as two characters each.

Jay

Just to check, could you try removing the null character at the end of the file name to see if this helps?

Alternatively, have you tried enabling the flexible file name feature?

hottiehandmade

Removing the space does not change anything and flexible file name is already enabled.

Dell_Dropbox

Happy New Year @hottiehandmade, we're looking into this but with much of our team still away on holiday it may take a little time to investigate. We'll circle back with an update once we know more. Thanks so much for your patience!

hottiehandmade

Hi @Dell_Dropbox ,

Happy New Year and thank you for the update! That is completely fine, take your time and enjoy the holiday!

Nancy

Happy New Year from me as well, @hottiehandmade!

Since our team wishes to have a closer look into this, I’ve gone ahead and logged you a ticket.

Please check the inbox of your email address, whenever possible, and reply back to my message.

Cheers!