# Cannot Delete Custom Emoji
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-delete-custom-emoji/74222
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [16 نوفمبر 2017، 11:10م UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-delete-custom-emoji/74222 "2017-11-16T23:10:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@AirRockStar](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AirRockStar)
#### Post date: [16 نوفمبر 2017، 11:10م UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-delete-custom-emoji/74222/1 "2017-11-16T23:10:08Z")
I wanted to add “\<3” to the emoji list and it added “:_3_:” instead which I suspect is because of the “\<”. Anyways I have tried removing it and it will not delete… It asks are you sure, I select “yes” and then nothing…
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [17 نوفمبر 2017، 12:02ص UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-delete-custom-emoji/74222/2 "2017-11-17T00:02:46Z")
@zogstrip can you have a look at this? should be an easy fix.
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [20 نوفمبر 2017، 10:52م UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-delete-custom-emoji/74222/5 "2017-11-20T22:52:29Z")
I’m not 100% sure how you ended up in that state since I couldn’t reproduce it locally…
But I changed the code so that we’re lenient when deleting custom emojis when the associated upload was somehow already deleted.
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/2d48caffdfffd72b51c1b1591ee50cfed3aba199](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/2d48caffdfffd72b51c1b1591ee50cfed3aba199)
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [22 نوفمبر 2017، 2:00ص UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-delete-custom-emoji/74222/9 "2017-11-22T02:00:14Z")
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