Django substitute old image of ImageFile

[Fabrizio Alongi]

Hi, I've searched a lot for this problem, but I never found one real solution.

I've a simple Django News model with an ImageField set correctly.

What I need is to delete the old image file when I upload a new image file with ImageField.

What is the best and clear solution?

I've others model have others ImageField... with the same problem.

One solution, maybe, is to clear Media Folder with an automated script... but... I prefer one standalone solution if is possible.

ps: sorry for my english! :)

[Fabrizio Alongi]

Any solutions?? :/

[Mike Dewhirst]

On 23/02/2014 9:51am, Fabrizio Alongi wrote:
> Any solutions?? :/
>

I'm interested too. I have it on my todo list to write a delete routine
for my own software to get rid of uploaded files which are being
replaced. I haven't decided whether to make it automatic or not. I
haven't gotten around to it yet because other things have a higher
priority. If I tackle it I'll post the fix here but if you do it before
me I'd apreciate seeing how you do it.

Cheers

Mike

[lokesh]

Hi,

    When i had a same problem for my imagefield when ever user deletes a image, i use to get the path of the image from the db delete the image record in db and  delete the image via os.system('rm image_path') from media path.

Thanks,

Lokesh

[Fabrizio Alongi]

Hi, after I've searched online, and from this reply  I have wrote this solution by overriding save method of my model class.

def save(self, force_insert=False, force_update=False, using=None, update_fields=None):

        # if an element exist

        if self.id is not None:

            current = MyModelClass.objects.get(id=self.id)

            if self.image != current.image:

                # Delete old image and thumbnail

                current.image.delete(save=False)    # Set save=False because it's saving now.

        super(MyModelClass, self).save(force_insert, force_update, using, update_fields).

Simple!

[Mike Dewhirst]

Fabrizio

Very nice - I'll borrow that for sure :)

Thanks

Mike

On 24/02/2014 11:38pm, Fabrizio Alongi wrote:
> Hi, after I've searched online, and from this reply

> <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4394194/replacing-a-django-image-doesnt-delete-original#answer-8342249>I

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