Re: FileField delete and update handling

Please have a look at following code. pre_save and post_delete signal handlers are used here to automatically delete unused files. Signal handlers are generic in nature as the use isinstance(field, models.FileField) to identify file fields. Source - https://github.com/un1t/django-cleanup/blob/m

Re: FileField delete and update handling

You could remember the old path by saving it as a variable in your model's __init__ function. Something like this: self._old_file_path = self.file_path Then in your save(): #only if there was a non-blank path to begin with, and it changed if self._old_file_path and ( self._old_file_

FileField delete and update handling

Hi, As it seems Django doesn't handle the update and delete of files from a FileField by itself leaving you them pretty hard to use by default. I tried search around but couldn't find a proper answer as to the correct way of handling this. I'm looking for the case where when the file is update