Hi, For my application I created a custom ImageField (code below) as I need to automatically generate a few different sets of thumbnails. I read the posts on the requests for Django to delete old images when uploading, and was blown away to see the request for that feature turned down. I still don't know why anyone would want the old images that you have zero access to (from ui) laying around when you change to a new one.
Anyway, this is my attempt to solve that oversight for my current application. First I tried calling the ImageField.delete if on an instance of the old image however that deletes the old and doesn't save the updated new image. So I created a new method that only removes. (This code is currently working how I need it to work) On to the code: fields.py class ProfileThumbnailImageFieldFile(ImageFieldFile): # code left out for creating the thumbnails def remove_old_files(self): if os.path.exists(self.path): os.remove(self.path) if os.path.exists(self.thumb_path_64x64): os.remove(self.thumb_path_64x64) class ThumbnailImageField(ImageField): attr_class = ThumbnailImageFieldFile # This class definition left out and is overridden for this example in __init__ when creating the field models.py class CustomUser(AbstractBaseUser): picture = ThumbnailImageField(upload_to='upload_path', attr_class=ProfileThumbnailImageFieldFile) def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs): super(CustomUser, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs) # Store a reference of the original picture to allow for removing it alter if updated. if self.picture: self._original_picture = self.picture else: self._original_picture = None def save(self, *args, **kwargs): if self._original_picture: if self.picture and self.picture != self._original_picture: self._original_picture.remove_old_files() super(CustomUser, self).save(*args, **kwargs) What has been some other ways to solve this kind of problem? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-users/-/F_ESNNAU_BAJ. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.