# Problem adding custom emojis
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/problem-adding-custom-emojis/55057
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [January 2, 2017, 2:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/problem-adding-custom-emojis/55057 "2017-01-02T14:59:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Lutz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lutz)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2017, 2:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/problem-adding-custom-emojis/55057/1 "2017-01-02T14:59:35Z")
We use custom emojis. Some of them are bigger than standard. We use the following CSS hack to display it nicely:
```plaintext
/* Emoji Style */
body img.emoji[title^=":_"] {
width: initial !important;
height: initial !important;
}
```
This one, as example:  (named :\_bigboss:)
Since Beta 10 or 11 (we are on latest: v1.7.0.beta11 +38) adding new oversized emoji, generates this error:
```plaintext
/var/www/discourse/app/models/optimized_image.rb:110:in `block in ensure_safe_paths!'
/var/www/discourse/app/models/optimized_image.rb:109:in `each'
/var/www/discourse/app/models/optimized_image.rb:109:in `ensure_safe_paths!'
/var/www/discourse/app/models/optimized_image.rb:135:in `resize_instructions_animated'
/var/www/discourse/app/models/optimized_image.rb:192:in `downsize_instructions_animated'
/var/www/discourse/app/models/optimized_image.rb:213:in `optimize'
/var/www/discourse/app/models/optimized_image.rb:205:in `downsize'
/var/www/discourse/app/jobs/regular/resize_emoji.rb:14:in `execute'
/var/www/discourse/app/jobs/base.rb:154:in `block (2 levels) in perform'
```
[code]
hostname dragon-app
process\_id 110
application\_version [a481bf048facd5e0c9a896d52f210b450c5a3d08, d8be3e8bb10f02912107803b28a1aa08080c9f81]
current\_db default
job Jobs::ResizeEmoji
problem\_db default
opts
path public/uploads/default/\_emoji/\_bigboss.gif
current\_site\_id default
[/code]
Other emjoi we added before, are still working without any problems.
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2017, 3:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/problem-adding-custom-emojis/55057/2 "2017-01-02T15:22:52Z")
What’s the name of the file you’re uploading? If it has “`:`” in it, just remove them.
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### Author:  [@Lutz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lutz)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2017, 3:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/problem-adding-custom-emojis/55057/3 "2017-01-02T15:25:14Z")
The name of the file is “\_bigboss.gif” - as you can see in the second last line of the backtrace.log
The error also occurs if I name it “bigboss.gif” or if I try any other oversized emoji.
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2017, 3:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/problem-adding-custom-emojis/55057/4 "2017-01-02T15:26:49Z")
I just uploaded the emoji just fine here :\_bigboss: (removed the emoji)
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### Author:  [@Lutz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lutz)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2017, 3:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/problem-adding-custom-emojis/55057/5 "2017-01-02T15:28:23Z")
Yes the upload works. Now wait a few Minutes and have a look at your /logs
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### Author:  [@Lutz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lutz)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2017, 3:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/problem-adding-custom-emojis/55057/6 "2017-01-02T15:29:03Z")
I can also use it, but getting a lot of errors in the log is not good 🙂
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2017, 3:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/problem-adding-custom-emojis/55057/7 "2017-01-02T15:35:27Z")
This broke on last security patch.
The job is being queued with a relative path.
What do you think about this @zogstrip : [FIX: Use full path for emoji resize job by xfalcox · Pull Request #4633 · discourse/discourse · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/4633) ?
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2017, 3:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/problem-adding-custom-emojis/55057/8 "2017-01-02T15:36:39Z")
> [@Lutz](#):
>
> Yes the upload works. Now wait a few Minutes and have a look at your /logs
Ok, I did not understand that.
> [@Falco](#):
>
> The job is being queued with a relative path.
>
> What do you think about this @zogstrip : [FIX: Use full path for emoji resize job by xfalcox · Pull Request #4633 · discourse/discourse · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/4633) ?
Looks good to me 👍
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### Author:  [@Lutz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lutz)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2017, 4:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/problem-adding-custom-emojis/55057/9 "2017-01-03T16:51:14Z")
The issue is completely solved. Thanks again, you guys are awesome!
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2017, 5:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/problem-adding-custom-emojis/55057/10 "2017-01-03T17:06:47Z")