Deleting FileField Content

[Timothy W. Cook]

When I delete an object that has a FileField I expected that the associated file would also be removed.  But alas, this doesn't happen.  At least not through the admin interface.

Is there something I am missing?

Thanks,

Tim

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[Russell Keith-Magee]

On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Timothy W. Cook <t...@mlhim.org> wrote:

When I delete an object that has a FileField I expected that the associated file would also be removed.  But alas, this doesn't happen.  At least not through the admin interface.

Is there something I am missing?

 

This is by design. After all, there's no guarantee that FileField references to files on disk are unique -- so if one model instance has a reference to a file, and you delete the model instance, there might still be other model instances that have references to that file.

If you want to delete files from disk on cleanup, you can do this by customising the delete() method on your model. [1]

[1] https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/db/models/#overriding-model-methods

Yours,

Russ Magee %-)

[Timothy W. Cook]

Thanks Russ. 

That makes sense of course in the bigger picture.

I was living in my own little use-case.  :-)

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